Disclaimer: If I owned Kingdom Hearts Sora and Kairi would've already been together by now and so would Roxas and Namine! Basically…I don't own them.

Now…in my last story Growing I had this thing called my favorite reviewer of the chapter. A person that kind of motivates me and inspires me to keep writing, which usually prevents any writers block at all. At first I wasn't sure if this story would do better or worse than Growing. I was hoping for better and I think this story is.

Favorite Reviewer of Last Chapter:
Brittany-Nicole
Sora4Kairi

Can't Live With You, Can't Live Without You
Chapter 4: Havoc Ensured

"Kairi I've got some great news!" Hana squealed happily.

"What is it Mom?" Kairi asked completely confused.

"Sora is going to live with us for the rest of our lives!" Hana explained happily.

"WHAT!" Kairi yelled as she nearly fainted.

"REST OF OUR LIVES," Hana chanted continuously, "REST OF OUR LI—"

"BEEP! BEEP!" the alarm clock rang for the 50th time in a row. Kairi groaned in her sleep and mumbled some words of incoherence.

"Damn it, I wonder what time it is," Kairi muttered as she rolled over and tilted her head to the left to get a better view of the time.

7:24.

"OH CRAP!" Kairi screeched as she quickly rolled over the bed, while falling off it in the process. Kairi groaned loudly, but ignored the pain as she rushed into the shower. She was supposed to be awake nearly a half an hour ago. When she got into the bathroom she made sure to lock the doors. She brushed her teeth as fast as she could. Then she quickly peeled off her clothes and jumped into the shower.

After about 5 or 6 minutes of one of the quickest showers Kairi ever took in her life she soon realized that she forgot to bring her clothes to the shower since she was in a rush. "Damn, damn," Kairi cursed under her breath. This was just slowing her down. She wrapped a towel around her whole body and quickly flung the door open, but was surprised to see Sora standing there his hands raised as if he was preparing to knock the door. His eyes were wide in shock as he stared at her almost naked self, but Sora being well…Sora immediately hid it.

"Took you long enough," he mumbled casually as he walked past her.

"Me? I was only like 5 minutes," Kairi defended as she brushed past him and ran…or more like slid (since her feet were still wet) to her room where she changed into her uniform. Once again she threw her hair up in a messy ponytail and she grabbed her backpack. Finally she was ready to go.

Hana was humming softly to herself as Kairi walked downstairs quietly attempting to sneak out and catch the bus.

"Now Kairi, where do you think you're going?" Hana questioned loudly. Kairi stopped dead in her tracks.

"Err…I got to go catch the bus. See you later! Bye Mom!" Kairi said all in one breath as her hand grabbed the handle and prepared to open it, but her mom's booming voice stopped her.

"NONSENSE Kairi. I'll drive you and Sora to school today," Hana offered, or more like commanded.

"But, mom. Look the bus is almost here. I wouldn't want to bother you or—"

"You are going in the car. End of discussion," Hana finished as she walked upstairs to do her last minute check up on her make up. Kairi sighed loudly as she dropped her backpack near the front door and walked to the living room. She plopped down on the couch dejectedly and decided that maybe watching some TV might help. Right when Kairi turned on the TV though she heard someone's pounding footsteps come down the stairs.

"Damn it. I missed the bus didn't I?" Sora wondered out loud as he smacked his forehead angrily, "Damn it."

"My mom offered to take us," Kairi simply stated with no emotion. This day was not good and it didn't seem like it would get any better.

"Oh Jesus," Sora muttered to himself as he plopped down next to Kairi.

"I hate you," Kairi said with barely any emotion in it.

"I know you do," Sora muttered, "I hate you too."

"You don't sound like it," Kairi pointed out tiredly.

"Well, I'm tired, shut up," Sora mumbled without any emotion either.

"Don't tell me what to do," Kairi demanded.

"I hate you," Sora replied deadly.

"We established that," Kairi mumbled, "Back to Square one." She started flipping the channels on her remote controller, "I had a nightmare that you had to live with me forever."

"Well I had this nightmare that…oh wait. It's not a nightmare. It's reality," Sora muttered sarcastically.

"KAIRI! Let's go!" Hana shouted from the front door. Kairi sighed (she'd been doing a lot of that often) and got up as Sora followed closely behind her. They both grabbed their backpacks and walked out the door zombie-style.

Kairi, who was used to her normal habits, went to the passenger seat, but Hana stopped her.

"Kairi dear. Let Sora sit there," Hana demanded.

"Yes, Kai dear," Sora teased, but only Kairi could hear. Kairi pretended not to hear as she got into the passengers seat quietly. Hana only frowned at her failed attempt.

The car ride to school was silent except the changing of the radio station ever so often.

Kairi's mom eventually got annoyed of the radio station changing constantly, but Kairi didn't care. She was feeling rebellious at the moment and even though changing the radio station was something simple it made her feel better that every time her mom tried to slap her hand away she'd dodge it and continue.

"Mom do you mind dropping Sora and I off like a block away from school. We don't mind walking—" Kairi pleaded as they neared the school.

"No," Hana stated firmly.

"But mom…people might think it's like…sketchy…or weird that we're coming out in the same car," Kairi tried to persuade.

"I said no," Hana concluded with that same firmness. Kairi on the other hand made some sort of noise between a squeal, a shriek and a grunt all mixed together. Her fingers, which were double jointed were bending and flexing in a strange way, which annoyed Kairi's mom, but relieved some tension in her body. Both were a plus.

As soon as the car came to a halt Kairi jumped out of the car without a wave and most certainly not a goodbye. Luckily for Kairi no one was around when they came out except a few late teachers and some freshman. Kairi tried to walk away from Sora as if they were complete strangers, but he was still lingering behind her. Then again they were supposed to go into the same building so it's not like he had much of a choice anyway.

When Kairi walked inside the school she noticed people were already starting to walk into homeroom.

Unfortunately for Kairi 2 females weren't walking into homeroom, but staring straight at her. Kairi tried to think fast. There had to be a way she could hide from Yuffie and Selphie.

"KAIKAI!" Selphie shouted as she and Yuffie dashed toward her. Kairi had no choice, but to stand still as the girls linked their arms with her and started walking together. Kairi was basically in a death grip that just looked pretty.

"Soooooooo…" Yuffie began, "What's he like? Is he hott?"

"No," Kairi replied on reflex, but almost mentally kicked herself for replying. She didn't want to discuss this right now. Especially not with Sora practically behind her.

"Uh huh…sure…" Selphie muttered sarcastically, "What's his name? How old is he?"

"Err…his name…?" Kairi trailed off. She glanced back to see Sora giving her an almost-pleading glare…if that was possible. What could she do? She could embarrass Sora and start a huge rumor going around the whole school that would ruin his social status and Kairi didn't mind that at all. After all she hated Sora so the obvious choice would be that she…

"I forgot," Kairi simply stated as she quickly unlinked arms while they were off guard and rushed into homeroom without stopping by her locker. Yuffie and Selphie looked at each other in bewilderment, but shrugged as they joined arms and skipped off to homeroom.

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The first half of the day passed my pretty quickly for Kairi since she didn't have any classes with Yuffie or Selphie to stare at her crazily. Luckily for her she didn't have her writing/journalism class with them either. So after lunch Kairi walked to her class happily without a worry of bumping into them. Kairi's favorite subject was writing and she was actually a pretty good writer. Unfortunately for Kairi, Sora and a whole bunch of popular ditzy girls were in that class cause they thought it would be an easy A…but how wrong they were.

It wasn't like Kairi was a total outcast. She had a group of friends and people knew and liked her for her personality, but she just wasn't popular and wasn't a loser. She talked to a few of them kindly and they liked her, but they were just acquaintances. A couple of those girls she had been friends with in middle school, but people change.

Yet again Kairi was cursed with sitting near those girls and their stupid gossip that they only talk about before class began.

"Like oh my god," one girl began with blonde hair in a high ponytail, "Sora is soooo hot."

All the other girls nodded as Kairi gagged, but they were too stupid to notice.

"I heard that Sora came out of the same car as that girl Kairi this morning," another girl with brown hair began as Kairi stiffened.

"Do you think they live together?" the blonde girl gossiped.

"But they're not related," a girl stated, with brown-blonde hair that Kairi recognized as the girl named Mimi in her science class.

"Oh my God he's like HOT," the blonde girl repeated dreamily. Kairi coughed loudly, but those stupid girls didn't notice that maybe she was right there?

Then suddenly the teacher came into the classroom followed by Sora and lots of dreamy sighs. Kairi could've sworn she almost threw up.

"Since it's the day before break…and I'm kind of enough not to give you guys any homework whatsoever I'll let you guys do as you please and sit with whoever you want to today," the teacher stated simply as he walked to his desk and didn't say another word. The gossip girls just squealed as they huddled together to talk. Kairi just rolled her eyes and faced the computer so she could check her email or something.

Again the girls let out another dreamy sigh and a squeal. Kairi only heard footsteps approaching so why the heck would they squeal over that?

"He's coming over here…" the blonde whispered to the girls and Kairi was suddenly curious and had to resist the temptation of turning around and asking what the heck they were talking about, but before Kairi could do anything else she felt a tap on her shoulder.

"What the…?" Kairi trailed off as she came face to face with Sora. He grabbed the chair next to Kairi's computer and sat down right next to her. Kairi could almost feel the death glares all the gossip girls were sending her right now, but she didn't care she was curious of what was going on.

"Well…" Sora trailed off.

"Well what?" Kairi snapped.

"Err…" Sora mumbled.

"You came here to talk, so talk," Kairi demanded as Sora shrugged a bit. He leaned in so nobody would hear him and decided to begin.

"Why didn't you say anything?" Sora whispered.

"What?" Kairi asked with a confused expression on her face. Her eyebrows furrowed and her eyes widened and almost sparkled as she tried to read Sora's thoughts. Sora had to restrain himself the temptation of complimenting how cute she was.

"God. You're slow. With Yuffie and Selphie?" Sora tried to remind her as the hint clicked in Kairi's mind and her expression of confusion changed into one of worry.

"Uhh…well, I hate you," Kairi began, "But…I…well they…it's just if I want to embarrass you I want it to be something I found out. Not for something that I was forced to find out."

"Oh, very noble of you," Sora retorted sarcastically, "I don't get why you didn't just tell them. I think someone is getting soft." Sora then leaned back in his chair so he wasn't so close to Kairi and Kairi started to breathe normally since her breath was strangely uneven before.

"I'm not getting soft. You're just--….just let me work!" Kairi muttered as she turned away and didn't speak another word to Sora again.

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After school ended that day Kairi decided to walk home toward Namine's house since it would look awkward if she and Sora walked together back to her house and Kairi was not in the mood for rumors or drama.

So Kairi decided to hang out for a little bit and just chat since Namine was the only girl Kairi really trusted about anything. At the moment they were sitting together in the living room, while Namine's mom was upstairs taking a nap.

"WAIT WHAT?" Namine exclaimed as Kairi shushed her. Kairi had just begun explaining her well…new living arrangements with Sora.

"Namine keep it dow—"

"WAIT. SORA?" Namine exclaimed, "Roxas's cousin? THAT SORA?"

"They're cousins? Well, that's quite a shock considering that they're total opposites," Kairi commented.

"But they're both kind of popular aren't they?" Namine questioned.

"Namine they're not popular at all. Don't worry you still have a chance with Roxas considering the fact that you're really pretty," Kairi explained as Namine flushed a deep shade of red.

"Roxas and I are just friends. We've been friends for a while," Namine denied as her face matched Kairi's hair color.

"Uh huh sure…" Kairi muttered.

"So how's it going between you and Sora?" Namine wondered as she changed the topic fast.

"I hate him so it basically sucks," Kairi answered.

"Why do you hate him so much? Do you remember those days when you guys used to be best friends and you kind of had a crush on—"

"I don't want to talk about it," Kairi cut off firmly, "I hate him."

"But what happened? Why did you guys suddenly hate each other so much?" Namine asked.

"It's a long story and I don't have time for it," Kairi explained.

"I think you still kind of like him," Namine hypothesized.

"Well, thanks Dr. Phil, but if you haven't noticed the obvious, I kind of hate him. So I'll be going now since it's late. Thanks and goodbye," Kairi muttered as she got up and left the house. She heard Namine apologize in the background, but Kairi didn't stop. Tomorrow it would probably be cleared up, but for now Kairi just wanted space to think. It was dark out already and Kairi was kind of nervous to walk home by herself, but she shrugged the fear off. It was already 9 o'clock already and Kairi's mom might be mad, but if she climbed the tree that was near her window her mom might not notice.

'Stupid idea, but whatever,' Kairi thought as she climbed the tree easily. When Kairi was little her father and her would climb the tree all the time. The thought stung a nerve in Kairi's memory, but she shook her head to wipe away any thoughts or tears that threatened to come.

When she got to the branch nearest her window she tried to open it, but found out that it was locked.

'Gees…it would've been helpful to remember I always lock my windows,' Kairi mentally kicked herself as she contemplated on what to do next. She then saw Sora walk down the hall and passing her room. Kairi then did the first thing that came to her mind and knocked on her window. 'WAIT! DON'T DO THAT! HE might—too late,' Kairi thought as Sora approached her room and window in a curious look.

The window slid open and Sora's head cocked to the side, "I thought I wasn't allowed to go in your roo—"

"Just help me out over here," Kairi hissed quietly as she started to climb in through the window and she grabbed Sora's hand.

"How the hell am I supposed to help you get through a window?" Sora wondered as he grabbed onto her waist and tried pulling her through.

"You're not very good at this," Kairi commented rudely as she tried pulling herself through.

"Well it would be a lot easier if you weren't squirming and--" Sora retorted, but was cut off as Kairi flew through the window, but landed right on top of Sora.

"Ouch…" Kairi mumbled and rubbed her head. Sora was doing the same thing as well, but then they realized their awkward position on top of each other and they sprung apart.

"I…uhh…" Sora stammered as he blushed a deep, deep shade of red and so was Kairi. Her breathing was uneven, but she tried to calm herself down since she didn't want Sora to see her like that.

"My bad," Kairi mumbled casually as she tried to brush off any awkwardness, "Thanks for helping."

"Uhh…yeah…no problem," Sora replied.

"Okay, well then bye," Kairi waved Sora off as she pushed him out the door with a smile.

For the next half an hour Kairi decided to just finish off part of her homework except that science project. Kairi guessed in a way it was good they were paired up because they were in the same house, but they had to get started on that soon. That was the only homework left Kairi didn't finish.

There was suddenly a knock on Kairi's door and the door opened to reveal Kairi's mom.

"Hey Kairi. Where were you before?" Hana questioned worriedly.

"Just at Namine's. Then I came back and did my homework. Why?" Kairi replied normally as she closed her math textbook.

"I was just wondering. Anyway I came up to remind you about tomorrow," Hana stated as she turned around to leave, but Kairi's voice stopped her.

"Wait…what about tomorrow?" Kairi wondered.

"I told you before remember?" Hana insisted, but Kairi just shook her head.

"Wait what?" Kairi questioned.

"Keiko and I won't be here all of tomorrow morning and night. We'll be back the day after tomorrow. I trust you and Sora won't do anything rash am I correct?" Hana said sternly, but Kairi's eyes widened in shock.

'By ourselves?' Kairi wondered nervously. Her fingers tensed and her mouth went dry.

"Yes, by yourselves. I trust nothing will happen okay? You guys can take care of yourselves for breakfast, lunch and dinner right?" Hana asked rhetorically, "Well good night Kairi." Hana then left the room and left Kairi to wonder.

'Wait…by ourselves?' Kairi thought.

Havoc was definitely ensured.

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Sorry it took me longer to update! My original chapter 4 somehow got deleted and I had to restart. I hope you liked this chapter anyway. The next chapter is going to start getting fluffier cause I just love fluff. It'll have Sora and Kairi discussing about their fathers and stuff. Unfortunately for you guys, you don't figure out about Sora and Kairi's friendship until a little later, but it will be revealed! I hope you liked the chapter!

x3,
LJ