File 06: A Sort Of Cinderella Story Pt 1 » Volume 1

It is finally here! The Halloween dance! Too bad it's spilt into two parts. I have a reason it is. You'll have to read on the see it.

Also, this story is slowly becoming popular after chapters 4 and 5 but not that popular. Anyways, thank you guys so much for the reviews and for coming out of your free time to read this chapter.

Genre: Adventure/Romance

Disclaimer: The following characters of "Secret Agent Kairi" are from the video game, Kingdom Hearts. Square Enix and Disney rightfully own them. The setting-taking place in the story is original also and does not exist anywhere in Japan. The story, plot, and maybe some original characters are under my name. There will be some references to the game. Don't attempt to copyright.

(Namine's voice) – "Previously on Secret Agent Kairi"

"Hey, do you like Kairi?" Roxas asked out of the blue.

"The thought never occurred to me." Roxas sighed. His brother was naïve not noticing the affections Kairi gave him. Actually, it wasn't much of affections but the simple signs of someone crushing on another.

"What about you and Namine?" Sora pointed out putting him in the spotlight this time.

"I'm only going with her cuz' you told me too."

"Don't tell me you only said yes because nobody would really go out with her?" Sora asked and Roxas didn't respond.

"This is it," she said with no mind. It was like she was a zombie. "Halloween Town."

"Hey, this is where I got my costume too," Olette said as all of them enter inside.

"You know, we should dress up as two people who are like couples," Aerith told Cloud while looking through some costumes on the hanger.

"You mean like we're two vampires or something?" Cloud suggested.

"You sure have changed a lot over the years. You weren't like this in high school," Leon pointed out continuing his work.

"A lot of things have changed over the years Leon. I'm not that girl anymore." Rinoa then sat at the edge of his desk.

"Hey, I'm sorry I couldn't be there on that day." Yuffie's expression dropped but he played it cool.

"You're still on that? I said I did fine on that mission." Kairi just chuckled thinking about the story Yuffie told her.

"I wish I was in their family," Namine said and Olette looked at her.

"Why? What is your family like?" she asked.

"They're never home that much and I always have to be in my mansion." Olette's mouth was open. She did not know Namine lived a rich life.

"Y-you is rich Namine?" Olette stuttered still shocked.

"Yeah but I didn't want the student body to find out. I didn't want to be popular just cuz' of my money. That is really shallow," Namine told her. "Just don't tell anybody okay?"

It is October 31, 2009, which meant it was Halloween. It was the night where all the kids and maybe a few teenagers would go trick or treating out in the night door to door of people's houses getting candy. Staying up late or watching horror films with friends was another thing that can also be done. But for Tsuki High, there was a dance tonight held at the school itself in the gym for freshman, sophomores, juniors, and seniors all together. A contest was also going to be held for best costumes for both guy and girl.

"I can't believe this is my very first dance!" Kairi said in excitement but forgot that it was also Namine's first dance. "I mean Namine and I first dance ever!" She then takes a sip from her drink. It was Kairi, Namine, Roxas, and Pence at the Highwind hanging out as it was decorated according to Halloween. It was the afternoon only and they decided to do something before the dance. Olette couldn't be with them since the committee was finishing up the dance. Later on, she called in Sora, Hayner, Xion, and Yuffie to come help her and they did. Kairi and the others couldn't do it because she just needed four people.

"Man are you really happy about this," Roxas says taking a sip of his soda. "And to make it more better, your going out with my brother slash crush, Sora."

"Should I tell him how I feel Roxas?" Kairi asked and Roxas just stared at her. She totally forgot he gets annoyed when she talks about Sora around him. "Sorry about that."

"It's your decision Kairi to tell him or not," Pence told her. Roxas then hit him on the shoulder trying to inform him. "Right, next topic." Namine was examining the situation from her point. Why Roxas didn't feel comfortable about Kairi talking Sora around him made her think. Did he somehow have feelings for her? She didn't want to think about it or she'll get hurt on the inside since she had feelings for him.

"So how do you think the dance will be?" she asked her friends.

"I saw it yesterday and I say it's looking pretty good," Kairi replied. "All I remember was a great banner, balloons, tables, and decorations all over the floor."

"Doesn't sound great," Roxas said flatly.

"Roxas, Roxas, Roxas," Kairi repeated. "It was only yesterday, I'm sure-"

"You guys!" Olette screamed when she sees Sora, Hayner, Xion, and Yuffie accidentally let one of the fake gargoyles fall to the ground causing it to break. She was getting frustrated and the dance was only hours away. "This is gonna take more longer than I thought."

~ Secret Agent Kairi ~

Kairi, Namine, Roxas, and Pence continued to eat their meals and Cid came along. "Hey you guys! Enjoying yourselves?" he asked.

"Yeah," Kairi answered finishing up her drink. "I can see why mom always came here when she was a teenager. This place is great."

"Good to hear. You're just like mother," Cid told her. Kairi always liked Cid. Everytime he would talk, he had that father like voice. There was nothing bad to say about him.

"How so?" Kairi asked him.

"For one thing, you two always came here to eat and hang out," he answered. Her friends laughed seeing now that they have been going to the Highwind more because Kairi wanted to keep coming back. Of course, Kairi always had money on her meaning she would pay for them or pay part of the check.

"That is true," Roxas commented.

"Well, I gotta work you guys. See ya." Cid went back to work and the others went back to chatting.

"I need to use the bathroom," Namine tells them trying to get out but Kairi was in the way.

"I'll come with. I have to go too," she said as they left and went inside.

Roxas and Pence were left alone and Roxas saw Namine's drawing book hanging out from her bag. He didn't want to take it, that would be wrong but she was talented at drawing and he wanted to see her drawings more. She only showed a few and was always protective of it. He gave into temptation and took it anyways.

"That is so wrong Roxas," Pence told him.

"Its not wrong if I admire her work." Pence agreed and joined in with Roxas to look at some of her drawings as he started flipping through some pages.

Cloud was in the "secret room" of the house just researching on the organization but it was going nowhere and he got frustrated. He groaned covering his face with his face. He has been doing this for hours and had another thing to do. He had to get ready for the dance at the school. He got up from his seat leaving the room.

"I need to take shower," he said to himself and headed upstairs going into the master bedroom that he and Aerith shared. They needed to play the part so no one suspects a thing. He removes his clothes and such getting a towel wrapping it around his waist. He grabs his clothes and puts it in the hamper near the bathroom and look back to see what time when the door opens and Aerith bumps into him knocking both of them down with her on top of him. (Yeah, I was inspired by the scene from the movie "The Proposal". Lol)

"Sorry-" Aerith stopped when she noticed he was naked just with a towel making the situation more awkward because she was naked too but with a towel wrapping her whole body. She felt like blushing a little. This was the first time this had happen when they both saw each other nearly naked as they just looked at each other in silence. Aerith broke out of trance and got up holding her towel. "I mean sorry," she said as Cloud got up.

"This is a little awkward," he said.

"Your right," she agreed.

"So I'm gonna-" they both said at the same time pointing to where they were going. "You're gonna-" They both said again.

"Yeah, I'll take a shower," he said going in.

"And I'll get dressed," she told as they went different ways with Cloud closing the door. Aerith felt all-weird inside. She was thinking what just happened. She was thinking of him but she had this urge to be lustful. She shakes those dirty thoughts in her mind and gets ready.

Cloud was inside the bathroom and lay on his back on the door. He just had an awkward moment with Aerith. He then felt something below and blushed at the situation. "What I'm thinking?" he asked himself.

Roxas and Pence continued looking through Namine's drawings. "These are amazing. I love her work!" Pence said enjoying Namine's work. Each page had very well drawn pictures of people and landscape including some manga. As they go through the book, something drops out of it. Roxas picks it up and sees it an envelope. He heard the bathroom door opens and immediately put Namine's drawing book back in her bag but kept the letter.

"We're back you guys," Kairi said taking a seat next to the window and Namine sat next to her. Roxas looked underneath the table opening it to see a paper in a letter format. The first words he read was: "Dear Roxas, You probably don't know me particular but my name is-" He had to stop from there when Namine asked him what he was looking at.

"Nothing. Just looking at my nails," he told her showing her prove that he was.

"Okay then," was all she said. Roxas was now wondering what is in that envelope that fell from Namine's drawing book. He couldn't have time though because he needed to get ready for the dance as they were leaving soon. He just put in his pocket and decided to read it later.

~ Secret Agent Kairi ~

It was finally nighttime and the girls were getting ready minus Xion were at Kairi's house getting ready in the bathroom. The bathroom connected both Kairi and Yuffie's room since they share it and it was big. "When is Sora and them coming to get us?" Olette asked putting on makeup looking at the mirror.

"I told him around seven," Kairi answered. This was actually her time using make up and she didn't know how to use it. "Um, you guys, how do you use this?" she asked her friends holding up mascara in her hand.

"Man have your parents home schooled you too much," Olette told her and took the mascara from her. "This is a mascara you put it on your eyelashes but don't too much because you have an angel outfit. Lucky this isn't black," she explained to her.

"Okay got it," Kairi said trying it out.

"What do you guys think?" Namine asked from the other side of the door inside of Kairi's room. Yuffie opened the door and the three girl's eyes both widen. What they saw was wonderful looking Namine in a strapless baby blue dress. It looked like they took it from some wedding dress store. To go with it, there was a nice simple sliver masquerade mask on her and her hair was fully straight.

"Oh," Kairi said

"My," Yuffie continued.

"God," Olette finished.

"It looks great!" The three cheered. Namine looked happy and was smiling showing off the dress. She did feel like a princess wearing her costume. She was wondering what Roxas would think of her.

The boys were at Sora and Roxas' house getting ready also. Sora was putting on his devil's outfit but it didn't look to evil. He was wearing black pants, a tucked in white-collar shirt with a black tie, and a black cape on the outside and red on the inside. He has the trident to go with it all. "I do say I look smashing," Sora said in a British accent looking at him in the mirror.

"Shouldn't I be the one with the accent?" Roxas asked copying his accent. He was already wearing his Prince Charming outfit. He looked at it and noticed something about. "You know, this looks like that Austin guy from "A Cinderella Story"." Sora looked at his outfit including Pence.

"I think that is the one from the movie," Pence said. He wasn't ready yet though.

"Men! What do you think?" Hayner asked coming out of the bathroom.

"Like a girl with a skirt," Roxas answered laughing along with his brother. Hayner was Hercules all right. His friends just want to mock him because he was wearing a "skirt" with his costume.

"Come down girls!" Cloud yelled from downstairs. He and Aerith were dressed up as vampires. He had black pants, a white t-shirt with a gray-buttoned up vest with a v-neck line, a black cape like Maleficent almost, a necklace that was red having a fake bat emblem, and the teeth to go with it. Aerith had a dark crimson red dress with a tall collar, and long black gloves including the teeth.

The girls come down with Kairi coming down first in her angel outfit, then Yuffie in her popstar outfit; Olette was the Queen from Snow White, and Namine was still upstairs being nervous.

"You girls look great," Aerith says hugging each one. "And it's my daughter's first dance."

"Namine's too," Kairi told her but she noticed she wasn't with them. "Namine come downstairs!" she called out.

"Am really nervous," she answered.

"Just come down. You'll be fine." The doorbell than rang. Cloud opened it and Sora and the boys including Xion came all in. They came in commenting each other's costume. Sora was the devil, Roxas was the Prince Charming, Pence as a Pete from Disney, Hayner as Hercules, and Xion was a pretty looking witch except she wasn't wearing her hat.

"Where is your hat Xion?" Yuffie asked. Xion didn't notice it until she felt her head and looked down behind her to see her hat on the ground. Apparently, it was too tall, and it got knocked down by the doorway since it wasn't that tall in height.

"Where is Namine?" Sora asked not seeing her around.

"Still upstairs," she answered and then thought of an idea. "Hey Namine, just come down. It's just my parents and the girls here. You got nothing to worry about."

"But-" Hayner got cut off when Olette covered his mouth.

"Don't ruin this Hayner," Olette whispered covering his mouth till Namine came down. Everybody could hear footsteps coming down the stairs slowly. First they saw the bottom of her dress as she slowly starts to reveal herself to everybody. It was like everything was in slow motion and everybody's jaws dropped and eyes widen. Well, except for the girls minus Xion, since they saw here already.

She finally took the last step and looked at everyone holding both her hands. "That's Namine right?" Xion asked curious.

"Yes it is I Xion," Namine replied putting her mask up to her forehead. The boys were telling how beautiful and pretty she looked.

"You just look like Cinderella," Roxas complimented looking at her from head to toe. She couldn't help but blush right in front of him. Course she immediately put her head down when she was. She was flattered by everyone else's comment about her.

"Time to go. Man, escort your date out the door," Sora commanded locking arms with Kairi. She blushed still feeling puppy love for him. She couldn't believe she was dating him right now. Butterflies were filling her stomach.

~ Secret Agent Kairi ~

Rinoa enters into the Highwind with just a purse wearing casual clothes. Cid then called her out. "Well if it isn't Rinoa?" he said. Rinoa walked to the counter hugging him.

"Hey Cid!" she said being happy taking a seat near the counter putting her purse on it too. "It's been a while since I last saw you."

"What do you do?" he asked.

"I'm actually the principal of Tsuki High. Can you believe that?" she told him. "I've come back last year to work there. Sorry I didn't come to visit my best friend of the best diner ever."

"Its alright," Cid told her while cleaning some glasses. "You've changed I must say."

"So I've been told," she said putting her elbow on the counter putting her head on her hand.

"You mean from me?" a male voice said making her look back. It was Leon.

"Is that you Leon?" Cid asked examining him trying to see if it was he.

"Yes Cid, it's me," Leon answered taking a seat next to Rinoa. Cid raised an eyebrow noticing these were together. He was suspecting something.

"Are you two-"

"Us? No Cid. We're not together nor dating," Rinoa answers. She couldn't believe Cid thought that she and Leon were dating. That was not gonna happen to them. At first she was a nobody of the school and didn't talk with anybody till they got partnered up for a biology project. She did have feelings for him before but she never told him because she knew her feelings wouldn't get return. She just didn't want to go through the confrontation about it. She stopped thinking about the past and see Leon and Cid were talking. Could old feelings come back?

Sora, Kairi, Roxas, and Namine enter the gym as a couple. The whole student body was looking at them but mainly at Namine. They didn't know it was she since she was wearing a mask. One of Selphie's friends tapped her shoulders when they saw this. "What is it? I'm talking here!" One of friends then turned her around and she gasped at the sight. "Sora is with her?! That slut! She even has the same outfit as me!" She did actually expect there was something that made them completely different. Kairi's one was white and very classy looking but Selphie's one was a short white dress. It was as high as high shorts can go and she got big wings.

"Selphie looks pissed," Sora told Kairi but she didn't get it. She was too busy thinking if this was real or a dream.

"Somebody pinch me," Kairi said out loud without thinking. "Ow!" Someone has indeed pinched her and it was Roxas. "Roxas!" she tried to hit him but missed.

"You asked for it," he said. It made Namine laugh a little. One reason why she liked him, he was a funny guy. She was hoping this Cinderella moment for her could last the whole night.

Hayner was with Olette and Pence, Yuffie, and Xion were locked with each other's arms coming as a trio. Cloud and Aerith come in also and went to where the other adults were. They knew Kairi and Yuffie didn't want them to be around them right now.

The gym looked great as it fitted the theme Halloween having the lights dimmed and a banner that said: Halloween Dance '09. There was black and orange balloons tied to each table and there was a dance floor with the DJ there as music was already playing with colored lights going all over the place. There were some plastic statues of gargoyles, skeletons, zombies, and anything else creepy looking. A hand was also at the table filled with food like the Adam's family.

"This looks great Olette!" Pence told her.

"Thank you very much," Olette said being flattered.

"We helped too," Hayner said and Olette stared at him.

"You four destroyed one of the statues remember?" she said recalling the event.

"It was Sora's fault," Hayner blamed.

"Hey!" Sora complained. "It was you. Don't blame me."

"Okay, enough guys," Yuffie says trying to stop the charade. "Let's find a table." The eight of them go as a group find a table and each one took a seat.

"I find it odd you picked to be the devil," Kairi told Sora.

"I didn't know you were gonna be an angel," he said back. "It's just a coincidence." Sora had to admit Kairi did look like an angel. He never expect for her to look like that. He wondered if it were Sophomore Prom, she probably look more beautiful. He took her only because she asked him. He felt like that this wasn't really a date though. It just didn't feel like it. He was thinking of taking her out for a real date this time.

"Do you wanna grab a bite?" he asked her.

"Sure," she said getting up as Sora grabbed her hand making her blush. This whole crushing thing was still new to her and she was feeling things she hasn't felt before. Mainly this.

Cloud and Aerith were watching Kairi and Sora from the sidelines. "Those two, you think they can be a couple?" Cloud asked Aerith. Aerith didn't respond still thinking about what happened earlier and Cloud knew she thinking about it too.

"I know your still thinking about what happened earlier," he told her.

"Sorry but it's just… you know weird a little that it happened," she replied. "We were nearly naked." Cloud just chuckled. "What is funny about that?" Cloud stopped after.

"When I was young, my dad taught me to laugh at an embarrassing situation rather than worry about it," he told her.

"My parents never taught that to me when I was young," Aerith says but then she frowned a little. She hadn't seen her parents in ages. Not after high school because she did something.

~ Secret Agent Kairi ~

Leon and Rinoa were eating with Rinoa gladly paying for everything. Each was enjoying their favorite when they were teenagers and it brought back memories of when they hanged out at the Highwind. "I miss eating here," Leon confessed eating from burger.

"Still taste great Cid," Rinoa said eating a sushi.

"It should be because those were your favorite meals," he said as he taking somebody else's order.

"What made you go into teaching Leon?" Rinoa asked him. Now Leon almost choked on his food. "Are you okay?" she asked.

"I'm fine," he replied. He didn't think of a story of why he went to teaching. He wasn't even a teacher to begin with. He was the head of Kingdom Hearts, a secret agent's agency. Was he supposed to tell her that instead? Heck no. He would blow everything away if he did. So he was gonna make up one as he goes. "Um… I got into teaching because well, uh… I like teaching people." Now that was dumb to say.

"Really?" Rinoa says. "That's nice."

"Y-you bough-, I mean you get it?" he asked almost saying he just lie to her. Now he wanted to ask why did become a principal. Back in high school, she told him that she wanted to be a veterinarian before seeing she loved animals. "Why did you become a principal? I remember you told me you wanted to become a veterinarian," he said.

"I still love animals. It's just… I've never managed to get the money to get into medical school of that field. So I went with going the second thing I wanted to be and it was being a principal," Rinoa explained.

"I see."

"Are you single?" Rinoa asked out of the blue.

"Yeah cuz' I don't have time to be in a relationship."

"So high school was the last time you had a relationship?" Leon nodded. He must be really busy if hasn't been with anyone the past fifteen years. Rinoa was the same though. She never has the best of luck with men.

"Did you have any relationships?" he asked. Rinoa just shakes her head.

"Now that part of me from high school is still with me," she told him. She seemed sad about saying that and kind of dumb for telling him about her love life when she clearly didn't have one. She had zero experience in that area. Underneath all the new Rinoa was still the high school Rinoa a little. She still is wondering how does it feel like to be loved by someone you cared about dearly.

Yeah, it's the only first part of the chapter because this was just a starter of what's to come. There will be more to come and some action also next chapter and something else also. I'll tell you this though, it's much longer than this one by like a thousand words.

Part 2 is already done but it is in the process of editing and as usual, to get it online, you'll have to review for it to happen. It might be uploaded tomorrow or Tuesday or even Wednesday when the reviews come in.

Thanks you for reading this chapter and review please!