Identity Crisis
By: Orika
Orika: I can't believe it. The reviews of Identity Crisis had surpassed the number of reviews of Music in Time... (Faints)
Vampire Orika: (Recovers) Sigh Mortal...
Orika: Anyways thanks for the reviews guys. If just one single story of mine manages to reach a hundred reviews I can die happy.
Vampire Orika: Your happiness is so shallow...
Orika: What? At least I have happiness unlike you...
Vampire Orika: Hey my happiness is to see Mortals in despair mwuhahahaha.
Orika: Figures... Oh yeah almost forgot at the normal view from the previous chapter; it was actually a fast-forwarded event... And now the moment everyone was waiting for Roxas finding out Kairi/Naminé's secret... I think know what that secret is.
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts...
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Chapter 8: Commotion at the Academy Part 2
X Naminé X
Naminé stared at the unconscious Roxas. He called her name before he fainted. She heard him say her name clearly.
Naminé panicked; she stood up and was about to leave when...
"Is it alright to leave him like that?" Kairi said she was leaning on the wall and Naminé could see her clearly.
"But he saw me..." Naminé said. "I can't let him see me like this." She said.
"He cared for you..." Kairi said.
"I... I..." Naminé muttered.
Naminé tightened her grip on her bag.
"But I have to protect this..." Naminé said. "Please understand..." She said.
"No! I don't understand. I don't understand why you keep on lying." Kairi said. "Naminé there are a lot of people who cares for you, more than you think that no one does. It's you who keep on distancing yourself from them." She said.
Naminé ignored Kairi's words and began to walk...
"Has what they done to you turned you into a cold hearted person too." Kairi said.
Naminé stopped at her tracks eyes widened.
"All I wanted was to be forgiven..." Naminé said. "That's why I'm doing this." She said.
"But I never blamed you for what happened, it was an accident. It's you who couldn't forgive yourself." Kairi said. She walked past Naminé looking at her saying; "Isn't it about time you forgive yourself."
Naminé turned around but Kairi was gone. She then looked at Roxas.
X Normal X
Students were panicking. Kairi disappeared with a trace of blood left behind. The teachers were looking for her and the students who were involved got called by the principal.
"From all the years I have been principal to this school this has never happened before." A silver haired man said.
"I'm sorry Sir Xemnas..." Yuffie apologized for the fifth time.
"Explain yourselves!" Xemnas yelled to the students in front of him.
There was Olette, Larxene, Selphie and Rikku who looked at each other...
Meanwhile outside the office Hayner, Pence, Seifer, Fuu and Rai were listening.
"They are in hot water now." Rai said.
"Shut up..." Hayner said.
"Hmmm..." Seifer said.
"What's wrong?" Fuu asked.
"It's strange. If the red head was in the locker area at that time..." Seifer said thinking back at the events that took place at the cafeteria. "Then who was the one we saw at the cafeteria?" He said wondering.
"The cafeteria..?" Pence said.
"Now that you mention, I quite notice the red head freak was wearing a different uniform." Rai said. "She was right..?" He said in which Fuu agreed.
"That can't be possible. The locker area has quite a distance from the cafeteria, and besides if she was there, wouldn't she be soaking wet." Hayner said.
"Just what the heck is going on in this school?" Pence said.
X Naminé X
Naminé managed to drag Roxas to the infirmary. It was a good thing the nurse there and hasn't left her station. The nurse was checking on Roxas while she sat at the chair beside the nurse's desk.
Naminé took out her sketch pad. Some of the pages got wet. She flipped to the page of what she was drawing. The one she promised to show Roxas when she was done. It was finished already it was drawing of Roxas eating a sea slat ice cream. She drew it with perfection but some of it got wet and it was ruined. She touched it with her bleeding hand; some of the blood got absorbed by the paper. Upon realization she withdrew her hand she forgot the cut. She looked at her hand.
"That looks bad let me have a look." The nurse said taking out a first aid kit from the cabinet.
Naminé laid her sketch pad at desk. As the nurse treated her wound, she looked at the tag of the nurse. It reads the name Aerith on it.
"I'm very sorry for the trouble, Ms. Aerith..." Naminé said.
"Oh don't worry it's no trouble at all." Aerith said. "It's my job after all. I heard there was quite commotion happening right now." She said.
Naminé then looked at Roxas who was sleeping on the bed. Aerith notice and smiled at her, a knowing smile.
"Is he your boyfriend?" Aerith asked as she was wrapping Naminé's wounded hand with a cloth.
"W-what..?" Naminé said blushing looking at Aerith. "N-no it's not like that, he's just a friend." She said waving her hands while blushing.
"His just a friend..."
"Oooh playing hard to get, huh..." Aerith thought and that's when she noticed that Naminé's clothes were wet and that some strands of her blonde hair has streaks of red colour.
"Your wet, you should change before you catch a cold." Aerith said heading to the closet. "I have spare uniforms in here I just don't know if it will fit you." She said handing a Naminé a spare uniform along with a towel.
"Thank you..." Naminé said taking the stuff.
"And you should wash your hair. Did you touch it with your injured hand there are streaks of blood on it." Aerith said.
"Streaks of blood..." Naminé said looking at the mirror placed at the desk.
Naminé saw that there were still remains of red dye in some parts of her hair.
"She mistook it for blood, how ironic..."
"Uhh, yeah I should clean up." Naminé said.
"The bathroom is over there. It's a little small though." Aerith said.
"It'll be fine thank you." Naminé said going inside the bathroom.
"Oh can I borrow your I.D.?" Aerith asked.
"Uh... I left it in the locker during the commotion." Naminé lied. She can't let Aerith see her I.D. not with the way she is now.
"I see... I'll just take his I.D. then." Aerith said inspecting Roxas' polo pocket. "Ahh here it is." She said.
Naminé thank the heavens that Aerith doesn't ask too much question. She washed her hair and changed her clothes. She then put the towel on her head rubbing her hair dry. She then went out.
"Umm I need you to fill this up for me and..." Aerith said. "I had an emergency call at the principal's office. So I'll leave you for awhile can you look after him?" She said.
"Of course..." Naminé said.
Aerith then left in a hurry. Naminé took the pen that was on the desk and looked at the paper.
"Uh..." Naminé mumbled.
It was an information sheet and the first line was for the name. She was in trouble.
"What should I do? I can't write Kairi since she saw me..."
Naminé then wrote the name she hasn't written for three years...
X Normal X
Cloud was having lunch break from work. He was with his colleagues Reno and Leon.
"Man this job sucks..." Reno said. "Our boss keeps us working to the bones." He said sipping his juice.
"Then just quit if you don't like this job very much." Leon said.
"I didn't say I don't like this job, it's our boss who I don't like." Reno said. "He always sends us to fetch this, deliver this. We're not delivery boys for crying out loud." He said.
"At least we don't get to baby sit his butt." Cloud said. "And the good news about it is that we can go home, unlike the others." He said.
"Oh yeah how's Naminé doing..?" Leon asked.
Cloud sighed and said; "Nothing new. She still wouldn't say anything; even Tifa's having a hard time."
"So uh, I still couldn't get the drift of your story. You were saying that this niece of yours is pretending to be your dead niece?" Reno said confused.
"Naminé has a twin, her name was Kairi but she died in an accident. Now my sister and her husband are forcing her to live as Kairi, making her look like her, making her live as her." Cloud said the tone of his voice hardening. "I should have taken Naminé with me when I had the chance." He said.
"No offense Cloud but your sister and her husband are one psychotic couple. Why don't you just report this?" Reno asked.
"As much as I want to... But Naminé begged me not to. Tifa said that if I force her, she might lose her mind." Cloud said.
"But then what will happen to Naminé? She can't live as Kairi forever..." Leon said in which Reno agreed.
Cloud sighed looking outside then something caught his eyes.
"Naminé..." Cloud said standing up.
At the other side of the street, Naminé was standing looking at him. Was it her, she looked somewhat different. A bus passed by blocking his view but when it passed, she disappeared.
"Hey Cloud what's wrong?" Reno asked.
Cloud reached for his phone and dialled a number.
X Naminé X
Naminé had finished filling up the paper when she heard her phone ring.
"Huh... Who would be calling me?" Naminé said as she took her phone out of her bag.
At least it was still functioning even though it got wet. Cloud's name was displayed on the screen. She flipped it and answered the call.
"Hello Cloud..." Naminé said.
"Naminé uh... Sorry if I disturbed you on your class. I just wanted to check-up on you..." Cloud said.
"Actually it's a good thing you called. I have a favour to ask." Naminé said as she narrated what happened with fewer details.
"What!!" Cloud said. "How'd that happened?" He asked.
"I can't explain right now. But please make the call... Everyone is going crazy." Naminé said. "Just tell them I'm home now and I'm fine." She said.
"Okay I'll make the call, but are you gonna be okay I mean I could fetch you right now." Cloud said. "I'll be there in thirty minutes." He said.
"No I'll be fine I promise." Naminé said.
Naminé flipped her phone and laid it on the desk.
"Uhhh..."
Naminé looked at Roxas who was beginning to come to. She hid her hair under the towel and walked to his bed and looked at him.
X Roxas X
"Uhhh..." Roxas mumbled.
"Roxas are you feeling alright." A voice asked.
"Ouch... I think so..." Roxas said focusing his sight.
Roxas saw Kairi a towel on her head, standing by his bed.
"Kairi what happened?" Roxas asked sitting up.
"Well you bumped to me at the hallway and then you passed out." Kairi said. "I brought you to the infirmary." She said.
Then the P.A. sounded making an announcement. "To all students classes will be early dismissed. Please leave the campus grounds and head straight home thank you."
Roxas giggled.
"They dismissed the class early..." Roxas said but Kairi didn't say a thing. "Ahem I think the impact hit me real hard. For a moment there I thought I saw Naminé." He said changing the subject.
Kairi remained silent.
"Sorry... Forget what I said. I must be imagining things." Roxas said and looked at Kairi.
"I'm sorry..." Kairi said. "For being such a burden..." She said.
"You're no burden Kairi. It's not your fault." Roxas said.
"But I'm always the start of it." Kairi said.
"No you're not. Stop blaming yourself for something you didn't even do." Roxas said.
Kairi then sat beside him.
"I'm sorry..." Kairi said.
"I said it's not your fault." Roxas said getting irritated.
"I'm such a big liar." Kairi said looking down. "I've been lying to you." She said.
"What?" Roxas said confused. "What do you mean "You've been lying to me"?"
"Roxas... You weren't imagining things." Kairi said looking at him.
Roxas looked at Kairi confused. For a moment he thought something was different about her, and that's when he noticed her hair. Even though it was covered in towel a few strands peered out; and it wasn't auburn it was blonde.
"A dye... Did Olette dumped dye on her?"
But from what Roxas remembered Pence said it was water.
"Kairi, did you do something to your hair?" Roxas asked reaching for the towel.
Kairi just shook her head tears whelming her eyes. Roxas then pulled the towel off of her head. His eyes widened with shock. For a moment there was silence neither of them spoke.
"Naminé..." Roxas said.
"I'm sorry..." Naminé said wiping her tears as she stood up, grabbed her bag and left leaving her sketch pad and uniform behind.
X Naminé X
Just as she got outside she bumped to someone. It was Hayner and he wasn't alone, Pence was with him as well as for Seifer and his gang; which is quite a miracle.
"Sorry about that, are you okay?" Hayner asked.
"Now he's apologizing to me."
Naminé looked at him shaking her head.
"No, everything's not okay." Naminé snapped and left.
"Geez, what's her problem?" Pence said.
They all shrugged.
X Roxas X
Roxas sat there frozen. Everything was still registering on his mind.
"She's alive... Naminé's alive, but how can that be?"
That's when Roxas remembered what Kairi said back at the cafeteria...
"That wasn't me, Roxas."
"I haven't been around since the accident."
The door opened.
"Hey Roxas how are ya? We heard what happened from Ms. Gainsborough." Hayner said.
Roxas didn't respond.
"What's wrong BHK cat caught your tongue." Seifer said laughing.
"What the heck is going on?" Roxas said which left Hayner and the others confused.
End of Chapter 8
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Orika: Did I got Aerith's last name right? If not then please tell me... And now Roxas finally found out ahahahaha... I'd like to thank lebrezie for the prediction which gave me this idea. It gave me quite a laugh when I was reading it, which made me look like an idiot for laughing at something that was supposed to be touching.
Vampire Orika: You always looked like an idiot, Mortal.
Orika: Ignoring you... Now what will happen in the next chapter confrontation, revelation? Maybe... Well just find out on the next chapter. Gimme yummy reviews...
Vampire Orika: You eat reviews..?
Orika (Raises a brow) Until next time...