Identity Crisis
By: Orika
Orika: Thanks for the wonderful Reviews, I love you guys. The reviews you give me motivate me more in updating the story.
Vampire Orika: Mortals when will they ever learn?
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts, but dreaming about it is not bad right?
Italic: Thoughts
Bold: Flashbacks
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Chapter 5: Haunting Past
X Naminé X
The night that summer... All Naminé could remember was seeing a blinding light.
"Naminé look out!"
Kairi's voice rang in her ears as she felt a strong push behind, getting her out of the lights way. The grocery bags she was carrying went flying in the air. The next thing she knew was that she was kneeling beside Kairi's dead body on the cold ground of the street bathing in her own blood. Her hands were covered with Kairi's blood.
"Help..!" Naminé screamed crying. "Somebody help! Kairi..!" She continued to cry.
"No!!" Naminé yelled waking from her horrible nightmare sobbing. "Kairi..." She said.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door. The door was locked so whoever was outside couldn't get in.
"Kairi are you alright?" Naminé's father asked.
Naminé wiped her tears.
"I'm alright dad." Naminé said. "It's nothing..." She said looking at her hands.
"Are you sure sweetie?" Naminé's father asked.
"Yes, I'm sorry for waking you up..." Naminé said.
"That's okay sweetie." Her father said. "Just call me if there's something wrong." He said.
Naminé heard the sound of footsteps fading and then there was the sound a door shutting. She was sitting up staring at her hands, it was clean. But then her mind was creating an illusion that her hands were covered in blood, just like before when she was twelve years old.
"Why am I dreaming that now?" Naminé said tears falling in her eyes. "I'm sorry Kairi, I'm very sorry..." She said her tears continue to fall from her eyes down to her hands.
X Roxas X
Roxas got to the academy a few minutes before classes starts. He blamed it on his alarm clock that didn't ring to wake him up, because he forgot to set it in the first place. He was supposed to be early, he wanted to ask Kairi about who he saw at the mall.
Roxas was taking his stuff in the locker, when he heard a voice he didn't want to hear early in the morning. He peered at the source of the voice. It was Seifer and his gang. He felt unlucky when Seifer's locker located a few distance from his.
"So what will be our schedule this time?" It was Seifer and from the sounds of it he was up to no good again.
"We can set a little trap after class." Rai one of Seifer's partners in crime said.
"Lunch..." Fuu the girl of few words said.
"We can't." Rai said. "She always disappears at lunch." He said.
"Disappears at lunch..."
"She... Are they talking about Kairi?"
"I wonder where that red head freak hides every lunch." Seifer said closing the door on his locker.
When Roxas saw they were heading his way, he took the liberty of taking a little prank. When Seifer was going to pass him, he stretched his leg and tripped Seifer, face flat on the floor.
"Ooops... My bad..." Roxas said smirking. "You should be more careful you know." He said laughing.
The other students who saw the scene laughed along with Roxas. Seifer stood up glaring at Roxas. Suddenly the bell rang signalling that classes will start within a few minutes.
"Save by the bell, you could've gone straight to the infirmary instead of the classroom." Seifer said.
"I wonder about that." Roxas said leaving them; still laughing inside. Seifer's face was red from the impact on the floor.
Though Roxas day started fine it was strange, Kairi seemed to be avoiding him. Every time he would look at her, she would look the other way. He wondered why. At his third class where he could see her.
Roxas was paying less attention at whatever the teacher was lecturing about. He would take glances at Kairi who was busy taking down notes.
"Is she avoiding me? What did I do?"
Then the bell rang signalling class was over and that it was time for lunch. Students were pouring out of the classrooms heading to the cafeteria to eat. Roxas got out of class searching for Kairi as soon as the bell rang she just disappeared.
"Roxas..." Hayner called. "Over here." He said waving his hand.
"Hayner..." Roxas said approaching him.
"So what are we gonna have for lunch?" Hayner asked.
"Sorry dude but I have something to do." Roxas said. "Tell Pence and Olette I won't be able to join lunch." He said and left.
"What was that about?" Hayner wondered.
Roxas searched for Kairi everywhere except in the cafeteria. He spent all the lunch time searching for her.
"Where could she be?"
Then he just remembered that he saw her on the roof top that time. He slapped his forehead.
"I'm such an idiot." Roxas said heading towards the roof top. "Why didn't I think of that earlier?" He said as he reached the roof top.
Roxas was right Kairi was there, eating her lunch peacefully, seating down on the floor, her back leaning on the wall near the door. She stopped when she notice him.
"Finally I found you." Roxas said stepping outside and closing the door.
X Naminé X
Naminé was eating peacefully at the roof top. It was the only safe place for her. No one knew she goes up there to eat her lunch.
Suddenly the door opened. Naminé looked at the person nervously. Now they know where she hides every lunch.
"Finally I found you." It was Roxas, he closed the door. "So this is where you disappear during lunch." He said looking at her.
"What's he doing here?"
Why did he always seem to find her?
"Nice hiding place." Roxas said standing near her. "Could I seat here?" He asked pointing on the floor.
Naminé looked around as if there are some other people in there. Then she nodded.
X Roxas X
Roxas sat beside Kairi. He took out his lunch from his bag which was just a sandwich. He then munched it on.
"Aren't you supposed to be with your friends at the cafeteria?" Kairi asked.
"I told Hayner I've got something to do." Roxas said.
"Which is?" Kairi asked.
"Here, talking to you." Roxas said smiling. "I've got something to ask, if you don't mind." He said his smile faded.
Kairi remained silent. She was eating.
"Silence means yes, right?" Roxas asked in which Kairi nodded. "It was weird. At the mall I thought I saw..." He said then fell silent.
Roxas breathe in.
"Naminé..." He finally said.
Kairi looked at him.
"I saw her at a book store." Roxas continued. "I thought I was just imagining things. But it wouldn't get off my mind." He finished.
"It must've been just your imagination." Kairi said coldly. "How could see a person who's already dead?" She said.
"How could you say things like that?" Roxas said in a sharp voice, his hands clenched.
How could she just be so cold? Saying things like that, she could've said in another way.
X Naminé X
Naminé was shaking from Roxas' reaction. She had never seen him angry, what was the big deal anyway?
"She was your sister, far than that your twin." Roxas said the anger of his voice not changing. "Don't you care about her?" He said.
Roxas crossed the line. Naminé clenched her hands.
"Of course I care!" Naminé said. "How could you ask me that? I was the only one who cared about her more than anyone did." She said tears falling in her eyes.
"Kairi..." Roxas said.
She wasn't looking at him. She just continued to cry. Then she felt something soft wiping her face mostly her tears. She looked at Roxas who was holding a handkerchief, wiping her tears away.
"I'm sorry." Roxas said. "I shouldn't have said that, here." He said giving his handkerchief to her.
Then the bell rang signalling lunch was over.
"We better go." Roxas said. "Let's talk about this later after school." He said.
Naminé nodded wiping her tears.
"How about we meet at the playground later?" Roxas asked. "No one goes there and the kids are usually home by the time our classes are over." He said.
Naminé nodded.
"You go on ahead." Naminé said. "I'll just wash up." She said fixing her things.
"Okay... Later at the playground then..." Roxas said opening the door. "Promise..." He said.
"Promise..." Naminé said.
Roxas then left. Naminé wiped her tears with the handkerchief Roxas gave her. No one has been nice to her, ever since the accident.
X Roxas X
It was last period. Roxas was tapping his pencil on to his notebook. He just wanted classes to be over. It was too bad Kairi isn't around she wasn't taking that class. Then someone just passed a note on his desk. He looked at the person it was Olette. He almost forgot. Olette was in this class with him... He read the note.
You seem to be bothered by something. What's wrong?
Olette
How was he suppose to excuse his self; without them asking him why he can't hang out with them? Then an idea came to his mind. He wrote something on the paper that says:
Mom asked me to do some shopping in the market. Can't hang out after school...
Roxas
Roxas even drew a sad face on it just to make it look credible. He then passed it back. He saw Olette looked at him frowning which gave him the sign she believed it. He mouthed "Sorry..." to her. Then the bell rang signalling school was over.
Roxas immediately left after apologizing to Olette about it. He wished he could tell her where he was really going but then; he thought that if she finds out, Kairi is the one who'll be in hot water.
Roxas reached the playground and saw that Kairi wasn't there yet. So he sat on the swing and waited for her.
X Naminé X
Naminé finally reached the playground. She had to deal with Seifer's torture before she left school. She dusted the back of her skirt which was a little wet. Seifer just mopped the floor wet and because she was in a hurry she didn't noticed and slipped on it and fell. Butt first on the floor. She was still in pain.
But then Naminé wondered if Roxas would really show up. She peered at the playground and looked for a spiky blonde hair. She then saw Roxas seating on the swing waving at her. She covered her back with her bag as she approached him.
"I'm sorry did you wait that long?" Naminé asked.
"No, not at all, did something happen?" Roxas asked.
"Nothing at all..." Naminé lied as she took a seat at the other swing.
X Roxas X
Roxas raised an eyebrow and as Kairi sat on the swing, he had a glimpse of her wet skirt.
"Seifer... I have to give him a little back, on Kairi's behalf"
X Naminé X
Naminé looked at Roxas and saw him smile at her; the look in his eyes shows innocence. That smile reminded her of things. That same innocence Kairi had when she looks at her.
Naminé had difficulty talking to people so, she never made any friends even back at Destiny High, she never opened up to anyone except for Kairi, who always listened to her and comforted her.
"I'm sorry, about what I said before." Roxas said.
"And I'm sorry for being cold." Naminé said. "I just had this dream about the accident... And I didn't want anything else to remind me of it." She said.
"Oh..." Was all Roxas said.
"You may already know, but Naminé is not a sociable person." Naminé said. "That's why she was always alone." She said.
X Roxas X
Somehow listening to Kairi made Roxas wanna tell her about the secret he had for long, even if Naminé was gone.
"You know." Roxas said swinging his self. "You were wrong about you being the only one who cared for her." He said.
"Huh..?" Kairi said looking at her.
"Like you I cared about Naminé." Roxas said.
"You did?" Kairi said.
"Actually I had a crush on her... Oh the heck, I was in love with her." Roxas said. "Although I never had the courage to talk to her, I always get nervous when I'm near her." He said.
X Naminé X
Naminé sat there listening to everything Roxas was saying, about how he watches her in a distance.
"Oh and you know, since I was a bit of a coward, I wrote to her what I wanted to say with the origami birds." Roxas said.
"You were the one who gave her those?" Naminé asked.
"Yup..." Roxas said. "My friends eventually tease me saying I was casted under a witch's spell, it wasn't a spell... It was natural. This is quite embarrassing." He said laughing.
Naminé began to laugh with him. Someone liked her, and that person happens to be telling her right now. Oh how would Roxas freak out when he finds out the girl he liked was there with him listening to every word he was saying.
Naminé looked at Roxas and there she saw that he was serious. Why, because he was looking on the ground tears falling in his eyes.
"Sorry, you have to see me crying this. It's just..." Roxas said wiping his tears. "You know, when I heard about the accident. I felt everything crumbled before me. I didn't go out of my room, until my parents decided to move out of Radiant Garden. They thought I might recover if I start a new here at Twilight Town. I was over her death but... I don't know..." He said.
Roxas was hurt, Naminé could tell, every word he said was true. Somehow she felt smiling again.
X Roxas X
Roxas felt a hand on his. He looked at Kairi and saw her smiling. He smiled back at her, for a strange reason he felt it was Naminé who was seating with him there at the swing. How he wished it was true...
If only he knew...
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Orika: That was quite long if I do say so myself and now you may have a good idea on how Kairi really died, guesses anyone. Secrets revealed and Naminé finally found the mysterious origami bird sender. I just hope it got all of you thrilled.
Vampire Orika: Ugh Mortals you've been in front of the computer the whole day.
Orika: I know that's why I'm gonna take a break right now. So be a good alter ego and finish up for me okay...
Vampire Orika: Wait! Drats she fell asleep so quickly. Mortals... Reviews send a review, suggestion, criticism and flames as well... I can't believe I have to say this, until next time...