File 12: Once Upon A 2010 » Volume 1
The title of this chapter is based on the song, "Once Upon A Dream".
Hey everybody! The story is back after a four-week hiatus. Now I've have so many ideas that I can use and I've been thinking what I should focus on more. I've been watching a few anime shows, mainly "School Rumble" just to study how Japanese high schools are more.
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.
(Yuffie's voice) – "Previously on Secret Agent Kairi"
"Surprise!" Tifa said appearing in front of her.
"Tifa! Oh my god!" Aerith screamed as the two gave each other a hug.
"Does it deal with Namine again?" Roxas asked as the elevator doors open and the two walks onto the street of Tokyo with the other people of the city. "Look, I don't like her okay. Can you just drop it?"
"Y-you don't like her?" Sora was shocked hearing this.
"Like I said, I don't like hurting people." Sora just stopped as Roxas continued to walk off without noticing. Then he ran up to him and punched him in the face.
The three try to help her out when Yuffie stopped looking out the window to see one of her classmates, Vincent, walking by himself. He sure was a loner at school and is one outside. Yuffie then had ditch her friends and wanted to say 'hi' to Vincent. Something about him made her wanna just be with him for some odd reason. "Hey Vincent!" she said standing next to him as he stops. "Remember me from school? The name's Yuffie."
"Yes I do. Now you can leave me alone," he told her walking off again but she stopped him.
"Hey wait! Can't at least get a 'hi' back?" she asked.
"Hi," he straightly said with a hint of 'leave me alone now' in it.
"You need to move on and I know Zack would love you for doing that for Kairi. Cloud is a great guy." Aerith then looked behind to take a look at Cloud. It seemed Leon, Rinoa, and him were having a snowball fight and she just smiled. "Kairi needs to have a father," Tifa told her.
"Keep this a secret please?" Roxas pleaded. Sora just looked at him. "Not even Kairi."
"Alright then," Sora said giving in. "But one the day comes…" The two then shared a small silence looking at each other. "Don't expect me to be there for you."
Kairi was taking her driver's test. For the fifth time. She hasn't gotten used to driving and her last tests were… let's just said they weren't good. She kept on failing on the same part of the test. Parallel parking. It wasn't easy for her, as she would just keep hitting a car by the rear or front. If she passed that, she gets her license and she never had to do it again unless she gets put in that same situation for real.
"Please god! Let me pass this time," she pleaded looking up to the sky. She puts the car in reverse and looks back as the instructor was examining her every move to see if she gets it right this time. Cloud, Aerith, Yuffie, and Sora were waiting at home anxious to hear the results. Kairi hasn't called but she took the bus so she could surprise them getting her license. Then the four hear the door handle and see it open.
"I passed!" Kairi screamed showing off her driver's license. "Go me! It's your day!" she sang. "I can drive! Woohoo!"
"I'm so proud of you!" Sora said giving her a hug. Then the others joined in the hug all behind Sora.
"Okay, too much love," Kairi said not feeling weight on her seeing Sora lean a little on her. "I think we're gonna fall you guys." And she was right. They ended up falling on Kairi crushing her.
~ Secret Agent Kairi ~
Kairi is sitting in the pool area reading the third "Twilight" book, "Eclipse". She was into the series and decided to read each book each year since the movies will be coming each year until the last one. She was waiting for Sora as he had swim practice today. Roxas, Olette, and Namine were with her just hanging around.
"Man it feels great to just be wearing a white collar shirt for second semester," Roxas said. "I always had to open my gakuran just to feel nice wind breezing through." Then he notice Namine was always looking away from the half naked teenage boys always blushing and feeling weird when looking at them. Lucky some girls were on the team.
"Come on Namine," he says. "Don't need to feel shy around bare chest guys." He was teasing her.
"Put a sock in it Roxas," Olette tells him. "Obviously she doesn't feel comfortable about it right now." Namine has seen it before but on TV. In real life, it was more different than what she saw.
"It's okay," she said. "I got my DS anyways. I'm not paying attention."
"Really? I saw take a quick glimpse of that one guy over there," Roxas laughed. Now she blushed hot red covering her face with handheld gaming device.
"Stop teasing her Roxas," Kairi ordered.
"Sorry," he sincerely said to Namine. "I was just messing with you." And she just smiled at him.
"Hey guys!" said a voice. They all turn to see their junior friend Riku.
"Hello Riku," Kairi greeted and turned back to her book.
"Obsessed aren't you?" he said implying turning quickly back to her book.
"It is 'Eclipse' and I so happen to love it."
"Whatever, go team Jacob." Kairi and Olette gasped at that last part and closed her book.
"Team Edward is better!" they both defended. Their friends laughed at her reaction seeing how defensive she was.
"I was just joking you two," Riku explains taking a seat next to Namine. "I just know that whole thing. I don't even read the book or watch the movies."
"You should've saw what she did at the movies when 'New Moon' came out. She threw popcorn at the screen when she would get mad at Jacob," Roxas said.
"Or Olette's scream piercing my ears when Jacob and Edward took off their shirts," Namine adds. "Ugh! I swear I couldn't hear for a week and I don't even like 'Twilight'." Namine may like watching teen drama, romances and such but the idea of vampires turns her off. She was dragged to go to the movies to watch it.
"Haters. You're just haters," Kairi growled taking a seat as did Olette.
"My gosh, what is going on here?" Sora asked putting a towel on his neck holding both ends. "I can hear you guys across from pool."
"Brother, your girlfriend went 'Twilight' crazy on us," Roxas informs him.
"Still can't believe Olette made her read the books when 'New Moon' was about to come out. I was lucky she stopped talking about it last month." Kairi then just slapped his head. "Ow! What was that for?"
"Hater. Too bad I can't change my boyfriend to like it," she said trying to put the book back into her messenger bag. "Man do I hate these bags. Why does Japanese schools always have to have theses? I went a regular one like American schools."
"Twilight sucks," Riku whispered.
"I heard that!" Kairi and Olette yelled as the same laughing reaction came.
"You two were meant to," Riku informs. Sora looks at his friends and looks over at Roxas and Namine. He sees her take a closer seat to him seeing her look at him smiling and he did the same in return. Looking at the two-made Sora feel so depressed knowing what his brother is doing is wrong. But why can't he seem to confess it? Oh right, seeing Namine crushed could result into something ugly.
While the six of them were at the pool, Yuffie and Xion wanted to stroll into the city to eat but not at the Highwind. They've been going there so much they wanted explore the city. So far, they see shopping stores, a few restaurants, and some casual eating-places like McDonalds. "I'm in it or a mcflurry," Yuffie said aloud. "Come on Xion, let's go." She dragged Xion inside as the door automatically open and the smell of burgers and fries filled up the place.
The two were enjoying their little snack and started talking. "So anything up lately?" Xion asked. Yuffie took a spoon and ate her mcflurry.
"Umm… oh! Our parents just announce we were moving!" Xion's faced dropped.
"But you guys have only been here since October. How could leave you like that?!" Xion complained but she was more complaining in a funny way than yelling.
"Whoa! Hold your horses Xion!" Yuffie tried to calm her down. "We're only moving houses. Not out of the area."
"Oh!" she said returning to her usual self. "Then that's okay."
"Yeah, when we first got to out house, we liked it. Now as time went on, we were beginning to think it's kind of small. So we're getting a bigger house." Xion then had sparkles in her eyes.
"Like Namine?" she said excited.
"Almost but not like a mansion. Shessh, you seem so excited."
"Sorry, I mean, I would love to live in a house like Namine." Xion has been living in the city of an apartment with her parents and they haven't been able to move out since they couldn't afford to do it. "I want to move out of the apartment I'm living in."
~ Secret Agent Kairi ~
Cloud was on the phone with a real estate worker talking about a house in Tsuki somewhere nice and big. A backyard like they're but more bigger. Kairi and Yuffie have bigger rooms and have their own bathrooms. Everything just had to be bigger but they weren't going for a mansion. "Really? There is such a place?" Cloud asked. "Alright, we'll take it!" Then he hung up the phone and Aerith came in from the stairs.
"Got a place already?" she asked. "I thought we've could've gone to Kingdom Hearts and they would just get us a house immediately."
"Whatever happened to living a normal life?"
"We're not really living normal no matter how much we think we are," Aerith answered. "We all are secret agents of Kingdom Hearts. We're lying to everybody who we are and Kairi still hates the fact she is keeping her identity a secret from Sora." She was right, there was nothing normal being in their family but it still felt like they were. "But lucky you want to do things the old fashion way." Cloud smiled.
"Sucks we're leaving this place," he said. "Wonder how Kingdom Hearts will handle this since we got some secret stuff here."
"Probably hire some workers and then the place will blow up." Cloud looked at her strangely at that last part. "I'm kidding," she continued laughing. "Like they would really do that."
"Oh Aerith, always joking around."
"It was my idea getting a bigger house anyways," she said. "Plus, Tifa loved it here, she'll be moving in with us when Yuffie graduates." (Yes readers, she'll be part of the main cast in volume 2) "Good to have another women in the house other than Kairi and Yuffie."
"Hey, what about me?"
"You? You got Leon," she joked.
"He's no fun."
"He can be. Just gotta know him more. After all, I knew him in high school." Aerith walked into the kitchen going to the fridge to get a drink.
"Do you want to go out tonight? Just the two of us out for dinner?" he asked her.
"Is that supposed to be a date?" she asked smiling taking a sip from her soda and he nodded. "What about our daughters?" Cloud walked away from the telephone and stood in front of her putting his arms around her.
"They can take care of themselves can't they?"
"If you say so, then yes I'll let you take me out." Aerith had the sudden to just kiss him but held herself back from doing it.
Kairi and the others were walked outside the swimming pool and stand there waiting for Sora to come out. "You know, it sucks Hayner and Pence couldn't come to school," Olette said thinking about the two. "Sucks Pence got sick from Hayner who was also sick."
"They're not really missing out anything," Kairi replied. "Nothing has happen so far and Tsuki Girl always makes our day. Today's gossip was something to laugh about again."
"I still don't like her," Roxas told his friends. The idea of a girl acting like Gossip Girl makes him think the girl has no life and blogs about bad news to make her feel better about herself. Sora then walked out of the swimming pool coming to Kairi giving her a kiss.
"I'm back," he said. The group walks across the school to the school parking lot now that most of them can drive and own a car now. But during their walk, Kairi noticed something was following them. She looked behind her back but saw nothing and continued on. Then she looked down on her feet to see a shadow and looked left to see a puppy was with them.
"Aww, it's a puppy," she said bending down to it petting its head and picked him up and sees it was a Japanese Akita. It had light brown and white fur on him. "He's so cute! Sora!" Sora turned around to see Kairi was behind them and see why. He could see a puppy in his girlfriend's arms and walked towards her.
"Hi there little fella," Sora greeted petting its head. "Where have you've come from?" He examined the puppy and see it had no collar around it. It was a stray and it had no owner. Kairi and Sora then brought him to her friends. The same reaction came like Kairi and Sora did before as they pet it.
"It's so cute!" Namine screamed. "And so kind. It likes us."
"I wanna hold him!" Roxas cheered holding out his arms. One thing Roxas loved, he loves dogs but his parents wouldn't allow him to have one. Kairi gave the puppy to him and he sure was joyful when holding him as it just looked at him. That's when he made a small growl at him. "Why?" He brought him close to his face. "Don't like me?" And the puppy pees on him. "Oh man!" His friends were laughing. "It's not funny!"
"To us it is," Riku says continuing on laughing. Roxas then gave the dog a look.
"Just you wait, I'll have him like me."
One hour later…
Everybody was at Namine's house. Namine was on her laptop streaming to goggle to find a good name for Kairi's little puppy. Once she found the website, there was a good list of them and their meanings. "Oh, how bout we name him Choco!" she cheered looking at Kairi. Her friend took a look at the screen and sees the meaning.
"Chocolate?" she said disappointed in her choice.
"What? It says number one dog name."
"Kairi here wants a unique dog name Nami." Sora informed her but then he thought of something. "Hey! We'll call it Nami!" The room went silent as none of them seemed to like the idea of it.
"My nickname is Nami Sora so that's already taken." Namine continued down the list and during this while process, everybody was in the discussion and debating for the puppy's name. Each one had a different choice and they sure were fighting over it. Lucky Kairi was out of it and looked at the list. Soon enough, she finally found a name.
"Hoshi!" she shouted stopping her friends. "His name will be Hoshi!"
"What does that mean?" they said together.
"It means 'a star' the name," she said playing with the puppy's paws, I mean, Hoshi's paws. "It says here it's a unique name and I'm taking it." Kairi got up holding her new dog deciding to go home already. She had some homework to do at home and break the news to Cloud and Aerith.
~ Secret Agent Kairi ~
Yuffie parks on the driveway in front of house and gets out of the car getting her bag. She leaves and locks the car. There was still some snow around the place since it's only January. It wouldn't fully melt till spring came along and that was next month or March. Three months away. "Man, I need to get out of this uniform," Yuffie said grabbing the doorknob but found it locked. "Hm?" She tried again and it still was. "Great, where did Aerith and Cloud go this time," she said getting out her keys.
Cloud had taken Aerith to one of best restaurants in the city. It was a little fancy but hey, what's a restaurant that doesn't look nice and people dressing formal for a nice night. The two were waiting for their food and were just talking as usual. "What's something that I don't know about you Cloud? I think I should start getting to know you," Aerith asked.
"Umm… I didn't used to live here before. My family and I were living in America when I was a kid," he answered.
"Didn't you say your parents lived in Japan?" Cloud nodded.
"They did and moved to Hawaii if I remember where I was born."
"You went to Hawaii? Lucky you, I've traveled and I still never been there."
"Do you wanna go there someday?" he asked. Aerith smiled and took his offer. "When we're free from everything, we'll go there." Later, the food came in as the waiter set it on their table and thanked him as he left.
"Where are your parents now?" Aerith asked.
"They're still living in Hawaii. Didn't stop their son to live in Japan."
"Do they… you know, know about your job?" Cloud shakes his head.
"Nope, I didn't tell them. Nobody does know about it. Does your parents know?" Aerith got goose bumps when he asked. There was a small silence between as the other chatter in the background with soft music playing.
"Aerith?"
"Ah, sorry about that. I just... don't feel like talking about it."
"Tell me," he asked. "It's not good hiding stuff."
"You're the one to talk. Fine I'll tell you," she said.
"Mom, dad. I'm home!" Kairi shouted. "That felt great to say," she said to herself putting Hoshi down as he looked at the place. "Don't worry Hoshi, when we move, you'll get a better home to live in." Sounds were heard from the stairs meaning someone was coming down.
"They're gone Kairi. Off out on a date," Yuffie told her and saw Hoshi. "Oh my god! Why who is this?" she cheered picking him up and having him in her arms snuggling it.
"His name is Hoshi," Kairi answered. "We found him at school. Wait a minute!" Yuffie and even Hoshi looked at her. "What did you say about my mom and Cloud?"
"They're gone."
"After that."
"Went out."
"Before that.
"Gone?"
"Yuffie!"
"I said they went on a date. Says right here," she said walking into the kitchen still holding Hoshi in her arms and comes back with a note in her hands. It says: Kairi and Yuffie, Cloud and I went out for dinner so take care of yourselves while we're gone.
"Hmph, at least Cloud finally took her out. This calls for a happy dance!" Kairi and Yuffie suddenly started dancing and chanting the words: "Cloud took her out a date! Mom is happy! I hear wedding bells! Hip hip hooray!"
"I can't believe you just left like that with your boyfriend without telling them," Cloud said taking a bite of his dinner. Aerith broke the news that after graduation, she left home without telling her parents and was still pregnant. "Why?"
"I couldn't tell them I was pregnant with Kairi. I was afraid if they did find out. Plus, I was young and foolish back then."
"Who was your boyfriend?" Cloud asked curious.
"His name was Zack Fair." The name seems to ring something in Cloud's head. Zack Fair? He felt like he knew the guy before but can't remember. Oh well, one day that answer will come and he'll tell Aerith if he does remember the guy or knows him. "Is something the matter?" she asked him. Cloud just shook his head.
"No. It's just… never mind." Cloud looked around and saw a small dance floor with couples dancing with each other to slow music. "Wanna dance?" Aerith smiled and agreed getting out of her seat taking his hand.
"You know, whip cream and cereal is good for dinner," Yuffie told Kairi eating it from the bowl. "It's like milk except more tasty." The two have been eating sweets for dinner since the adults weren't around to stop them. The dining table was filled with candy and junk food and half of it was thrash. They needed to be home alone more often to do these things together.
"Yeah, your right. We need to kick my mom and Cloud out sometimes just so we can have these moments," Kairi states drinking ice cream soda.
"Mm, so what are our plans before I graduate," Yuffie asked putting down her bowl and puts her feet on the table. She graduates this May and has a to-do-list of things before leaving Tsuki High.
"I was thinking of going to the beach and water park for spring break! It's definitely perfect for you!"
"Oohhh. Me likey already," Yuffie said slyly. "We need to bring everyone!"
"How bout you bring that Vincent guy you've been stalking?" Yuffie gasped at her question.
"I do not stalk him. I just so happen to like him for some reason," she answered defending herself.
"Ahm, that's what they all say. Just bring the guy," Kairi commanded.
"Fine!" Yuffie gave in then thought of something else. "Shouldn't you be doing your homework?"
"Please Yuffie, it's so easy to me I could do it in my sleep. Lucky I don't have to worry about schoolwork."
Cloud and Aerith were slowing dancing to the music with the other couples. The music was soothing to Aerith as she felt like a teenager again doing this but she was an adult now. That road of being adolescence was done already. Feeling like this, well actually, she hasn't felt like this in twelve to thirteen years. Being Cloud definitely does help her get out there to be with someone. "I've never felt like this in a while," she told him.
"Is that so?" he said as they sway a little noticing she can't really dance. "Hm… I just noticed we're just swaying. Don't you know how to dance?" She just chuckled a little.
"Those dance lessons went down the drain," she replied chuckling still. "Been a while, so I forgot already."
"I think you need to improve," he tells her laughing.
"Was that a slam at my dancing?" she gasped.
"Yes," he laughed as they continue to dance in each other's arms throughout the night.
Uhhh, I feel like this wasn't my best chapter to write. When writing all this, I was kind of bored with it but there are a few scenes I enjoyed writing like bringing in a new character, I mean, animal to the story. I always wanted a dog in the story and it was a good time to announce it. Also, I didn't want to jump on the Cloud/Aerith ship just yet. I want it to progress later on for nice and romantic moments they have with each other.
Oh and, ANY suggestions on what you guys want to happen or appearances? I'll take it into consideration since five out of the twelve chapters are not planned yet and I need ideas. Tell me in the review.
Thanks for reading this chapter and review please!