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Disclaimer: If I did, this chapter would so happen.

16. Guilt Trip.

Kairi walked over to where Darran was leaning against the gummi ship.

"Good morning, Darran," Kairi said sweetly. Darran's grin became more pronounced as he answered.

"Morning, Kairi. How did you sleep?"

Like shit.

"Good, good... You?"

"Pretty good. I trained for a little with Axel last night, then went to bed at like midnight. What about you? Did you get enough sleep? You look kinda tired..." Darran noticed, obviously concerned.

Aww! Namine squealed.

"Oh, that's just because I'm used to getting 14 hours of sleep a night," Kairi explained, giggling fakely.

Laying it on a bit thick, aren't you? Namine commented dryly. Kairi smirked, seeing Sora's silhouette turn towards her reflexively. He was listening in; that was obvious.

This'll be interesting... Kairi thought maliciously. Her conversation with Sora the night before was racing through her mind for the thousandth time in half a day.

"So... I saw you in the Coliseum; you're a great fighter!" She flirted.

Oh my god... you have no shame. You do realize that, right? Namine criticized, rolling her eyes.

"Thanks. You weren't too bad yourself," Darran said, scratching the back of his head.

I was better than you, that's for damn sure.

"Oh, you were so much better than me!" Kairi said, a high-pitched girlish giggle creeping into her voice.

"Naah, we were even," Darran said, obviously enjoying the attention. A part of Kairi really did disapprove of her using Darran like this, but one look at Sora's shadow was enough to silence that annoying little goody-goody voice.

"So... you wanna go out sometime?" Kairi asked, taking a step closer to Darran. She batted her eyelashes seductively. Out of her peripheral vision, Kairi saw Riku staring at her incredulously.

"Wow! Sure!" Darran replied, surprise and happiness on his face.

Poor guy, he's clearly been wanting this to happen for a long time... Namine murmered sadly.

"Great! We oughta head into the gummi ship," Kairi said, watching as Sora's silhouette got up from the seat he was in suddenly and walk to the back of the ship. She heard the bathroom door slam violently.

Kairi and Darran followed an obviously confused Riku into the aircraft, the latter having taken out his keyblade and twirling it around, carefree and smiling. Kairi smirked when she saw the bathroom door was closed; that meant Sora was guilty.

Good. There's nothing worse than being on a guilt trip.

A guilt trip that you put on him! I thought you loved Sora! Namine burst out inside Kairi's head, her voice going up about three octaves. Kairi winced - One more octave, and Namine's voice would reach dog-whistle status.

I do! Kairi lashed out. I really do...

I'm sorry... Namine apologized immediately, not realizing that amount of hurt she had caused her Other with that one simple accusation.

Kairi sighed. It's okay.

Lifelle got out her black sketchbook again and began drawing. She formed two happy-looking eyes quickly, putting a lot of emphasis on the shading.

"Wow... you're a good artist," Kairi complimented, impressed.

"Thanks! I love to draw... When I was in school, I used to doodle all the time without even realizing it! That might have explained why I flunked otu of science..." Lifelle said, rolling her eyes. The girls laughed together.

"I was never very good at math," Kairi admitted, "I never did my homework."

"Me either," Lifelle replied, sketching a rough outline of a face. She drew the hair in long, fast strokes of her pencil.

"So, is this a character you made up, or...?" Kairi asked, looking closer at the drawing. Lifelle added a nicely sculpted nose and paused before drawing a mouth.

"I don't really know..." She murmered, lost in thought. After a moment, she seemed to come to and laughed. "You see, I'm always drawing the same person, but I don't have a name for her, or anything. Wierd, huh?" She asked, drawing a small, smiling line for a mouth.

"So it's always a girl?"

"Yep! I'm absolutely terrible at drawing guys... I alwayhs make them look incredibly femme," Lifelle explained, chuckling. Kairi laughed. She was about to ask another question, but was interrupted by Darran from the next room.

"Hey Riku, where to next?" Darran asked cheerily from the first room, spread out lazily on the couch.

"Hmmmm... the map doesn't say a name, but it's got a couple different regions... looks like we'll be landing in the forested area. There's a little symbol for each section of this world. Here, have a look," Riku said, offering the map.

Kairi and Darran took the map, looking at the little symbols. The one for the forested area was a little circular swirl with a triangle on one end and a small line where the swirl started on the other. There were a few words underneath the symbol that Kairi had to squint to read.

"The Village hidden in the Leaves..."

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