File 13: Battle Of The Sexes » Volume 1
Finally! An update! Sorry for the wait you guys. I didn't have my laptop for quite a while and I couldn't write anything. Sorry again if this chapter seems long. It's just the description that make it long. Also, check out my page for the updated version of the story's title card! It's much better now!
Another note, the first two chapters of this story has been changed a little bit and not because it was co-revised by my beta reader, Kinkajou Karata. I read through it and noticed errors. An airplane flight from Tokyo to Chiba, which is actually Tsuki in my story, is unlikely. You would be using a train instead. So, the scene where they are moving has been completely changed.
Plus, a preview of next chapter is at the end of this reading.
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.
(Olette's voice) – "Previously on Secret Agent Kairi"
"I passed!" Kairi screamed showing off her driver's license.
"I'm so proud of you!" Sora said giving her a hug. Then the others joined in the hug all behind Sora.
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.
"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.
"It was my idea getting a bigger house anyways," Aerith said. "Plus, Tifa loved it here, she'll be moving in with us when Yuffie graduates. Good to have another women in the house other than Kairi and Yuffie."
"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.
"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.
"Hoshi!" Kairi 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."
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.
Another day, another wake up call. Kairi hears her alarm clock once again turning around on her bed trying to open her eyes and sees nothing but the ceiling. She stood up in her bed rubbing her eyes making a big yawn. Then she remembered one thing. Her room was bigger now that they finally moved. Her platform bed was in the top left corner, a desk by the window, a shelf right by it, and instead of a computer, she got a laptop sitting on her desk, a closet and a laundry basket. There even was a small table in the middle. She was glad there was more space now. More people can come in. Moving was good but it turns out, the house was on the same street.
She walks down the stairs dressed in her uniform heading for the kitchen. Their place looks more of a classic Japanese home a little more. There were sliding doors, wood floors but covered in a soft carpet, and the place had a blue tone to it. The look outside was great. Roof was blue, some trees including some Sakura trees that were starting to bloom since spring is coming, an engawa (porch), some trump stones around it, a fence surrounding the place, a gate, and garden with a pond that has a small bridge that goes over it. No koi fish though. Sad.
Inside, when walking in, to the left is the hallway. Across is the storage room, the first door to the left was the bathroom, and second left was the guest room closed off by sliding doors. Also when walking inside, there is a door in front that leads to the living room. It had a lot of space with a big nice kitchen. On the second floor, you can have an overview of the living room and there were three bedrooms. The master bedroom was the only bathroom upstairs.
Anyways, she takes a seat at the table and pours some cereal and then milk. She was about to eat when her mom handed her something. "What is this?" she asked.
"Supposed to be a handbook to the Nobody Project the Organization is doing," Aerith answered taking a seat.
"But it just has one type inside," Yuffie replied flipping through the pages. "And the rest are empty."
"Yeah, it's also more of an entry if you encounter any new types since that's what they're doing," Aerith continued.
"Great," Kairi complained dropping the book and the table making it shake a little. "More homework."
"You're lucky the agency is having people do some things for you since they're so considered for you to enjoy your first year of school," Aerith tells her. Yuffie got up putting her plate in the sink and take her bag to leave. Kairi too followed just leaving her unfinished breakfast there.
Far away in somewhere, Organization XIII was doing experiments in a lab with Vexen being the leader of the project since he is the whiz kid of the group. Each one was mixing chemicals and such wearing goggles. Demyx was lost looking at his tube. He saw his other friends doing well but not him. He figured he'd just mix and do some random things. So he mixed and grabbed random chemicals.
"Demyx not that one!" Vexen called out. Demyx poured an unknown chemical to him and his whole area exploded sending him to the wall. He fell off leaving a white spot the shape of his body.
"Wow! T-that was a-awesome," he said weakly. The smoke was starting to clear and Vexen could see something in the mist of it. Slowly as the smoke disperses, a Nobody is seen in a more female like appearance.
"You're telling me idiot Demyx made this?" Larxene said examining it. Suddenly, it grabs her and starts dancing around with her and throws her to the ground. "Oh I'll give you something to dance with!" she yelled in angry.
"Whoa!" Vexen stepped in defending it. "This can't be destroyed! It's Demyx's first successful thing he had ever done for this organization." Larxene just flips her pigtails.
"Hmph! Fine! Better get that thing away from me!" she warned walking out of the room.
~ Secret Agent Kairi ~
Namine was on the school's rooftop holding onto the fence as the cool breeze went through her making her hair flow with it. How she loved feeling the air go through her. It felt like she was flying. No one was around and she didn't tell her friends of her peaceful place because not much people go on the roofs. Of course that ended when she heard the door open making her turn around. It was Roxas. That was kind of odd to see him here.
"Hi Namine," he shouted walking towards her, hands in his pocket. She felt like blushing everytime he was around her and she did.
"Hello. Good morning," she greeted. "How cha' you know I was up here?"
"I can see you from the ground you know," he answered.
"Wow, I'm noticeable now even up high," she laughed.
"I've always noticed you Nami," he tells her calling her by the nickname Kairi gave her.
"Hey, only Kairi can call me that," she informed him. It true, no one else addresses her as Nami except for Kairi. And her nickname for her was Kai.
"Aww… I'm not special to you?" he teased hugging her from behind making her giggled.
"Of course you are. All of you guys are. I'm happy to have met you guys." Roxas lets go of her.
"Man, why I'm doing this?" he thought. "I shouldn't be acting like this." He had a worried look on his face and Namine noticed it making him look down to try and hide it but failed.
"Is something wrong Roxas?" she asked bending down a little to see his face.
"Ah, no. Nothing's wrong," he lied. Namine then started to leave but stopped and turn around to face his direction.
"If anything is wrong, you can talk to me about anything. I'm good listener you know. See ya," she said giving him her sweet smile when she would close her eyes and smile sweetly at the same time and just left.
"That smile of hers… I can't help but smile too but know that if she found out, I won't be able to see it again," he thought sadly. Why is he still doing this to her? Sparing her feelings just for her to be happy while he just went along with knowing pretending he didn't. He was such a coward. That's why.
Sora and Kairi were walking the halls holding hands as they see Namine walking down the stairs. "Hi Nami!" Kairi said.
"Hey Kai! Sora," she replied.
"Have you've seen my brother?" he asked.
"Yeah," Namine answered. "I was just with him a moment ago. We were just talking."
"Oh, what did you guys talk about," Kairi asked wanting some juicy details. Namine giggled.
"Nothing happened. He just hugged me from behind and asked if he was special to me," she answered.
"What is Roxas doing?" Sora thought as he looked at his girlfriend and friend talk to each other. "The more he keeps this up, the more she is gonna get hurt. He needs to grow up and face up to reality."
"Did you guys know it's your classes turn to clean the pool?" Namine told Kairi.
"The what now?"
Kairi, Olette, Roxas, Hayner, and Pence stood in front of the empty pool wearing their PE clothes and carrying some long handle cleaning brushes the inside. Pence was the only one carrying his camera so he can put this in the yearbook. But he wasn't the only one. One classmate of theirs, Tidus Morita, had one too but he wasn't like Pence. He was more of the classroom's pervert by taking pictures of every hot girl he sees. Sometimes it doesn't bother them but there is always a line that can't be crossed and he steps over it sometimes. And the reward for crossing it is being punched. Anyways, it was their homeroom's turn to clean to pool this time and we're pulled out of their classes to do this. No one can avoid doing this duty. Sure you get out of class, but you get out of class to do something else that requires work.
"Alright class 2-C! Time to clean the pool!" Ms. Shimizu cheered persuading her students.
"Is she even gonna help us?" Hayner asked his friends up until they see their teacher take a seat on one of the pool chairs with an umbrella open and takes a hold of her drink.
"Apparently not," Kairi answered and takes another look of Selphie doing her nails sitting in one of the chairs to relaxing. "And the queen bitch seems to be doing nothing." The five of them were sweeping the pool barefooted using some water and soap. It just felt boring to do it so Olette started to make some small talk with Kairi.
"Uh! This is dreadful," she complained to her.
"I'm not tired," Kairi replied not feeling a sweat.
"Well your more fit and energetic."
"I'm not, no wait, that is true." Kairi laughed at herself and return back to cleaning the pool. "But I don't do track or anything."
"So how are things with Sora?"
"It's going good. I must already get the hang of it being in a relationship."
"How so?"
"Remember his and Roxas' birthday last week?"
"Um yeah. What about it?"
"Well apparently he didn't like the gift I got him. He told me I should know what I want and I just went on my own. I didn't want no help for once."
"Oh yeah," Olette remembered. "That pack of roses was odd to give to him when it should be you getting them." Sora and Kairi's relationship has just been love and no hate although they would have their odd moments together with Kairi being the cause of them.
"Ugh! I can't believe that she and Sora are together," Selphie said disgusted of Sora and Kairi being a couple. "I would slam them on Tsuki Girl but if she finds out it's a lie, I'll get bite right back." She was getting a tan while her crew was doing the work for her. The three of them near her so they could have a conversation.
"He should be with you," one said in a high pitch voice.
"I'm still rebuilding my reputation girls. After all only two people have brought them down and I still have to gain back the student body."
"Yeah," another one of her followers said. "Especially that time when you totally got owned at the Halloween dance!" she said laughing when another one hit her in the rib. "Oww! That hurt." Selphie then heard a snap of a camera. She lifts her sunglasses to see Tidus and decided to pose for him.
Roxas could see the scene happening and see her hogging the limelight. She must be that much of a slut to have pervert Tidus take photos of her. Hayner then shot him the circle soap and gave a small smirk on his face. He grabs the bar of soap, throws it in the air and swings his sweeping brush and hits it. And whom was he aiming for? Selphie of course, but it didn't really work as it slowly goes down since he was across from where she was. And it ended up hitting Olette at the side of her face. Roxas was in trouble.
~ Secret Agent Kairi ~
Rinoa was at her desk doing some paper work as usual. The school's cultural festival was coming up in February and she was excited to be meeting some of the parents but since these festivals are more of a fun festival, she was even more excited to see what her students would do for it. The booths, the cafés, oh, she just can imagine it already. Her phone, not her cellphone, the school phone rings. "Hello? Principal Heartilly."
"Hi Rinoa!" she knew the voice.
"Aren't you supposed to be teaching a class right now Leon?" she asked. On the other end of the line, Leon was looking around him. He was at Kingdom Hearts Main HQ in Tokyo knowing he had called in sick to come here. He had two jobs you know.
"Mmm… yeah but I called in sick." He faked coughed to convince her. "I have the uh, cold," he said weakly. Rinoa then could hear some background noises on the other line.
"Then what's that noise I hear?" Now Leon couldn't think of an excuse so he also fake that their reception was breaking up and he hung up on her.
"Boy that was close," he said putting his phone away as he walked into the evidence room. Thanks to Cloud, he defeated one of Organization XIII's Nobodies. It was an odd one but it looked like the one Kairi and Yuffie saw before back in October.
"So what's going between you two?" Cloud asked him while looking at some paper work. "Did you know Kairi told Aerith and I that she walked in on you guys almost kissing?"
"Oh god, that was like last month I think. It wasn't even one," Leon informed him taking a seat in front of the computer. "We both decided to stay distant from each other in school after that."
"What about outside of school?" Cloud said slyly smiling.
"Let me think about that." Leon looked up to look like he was thinking. "Nope."
"Man you have a boring love life," Cloud tells him putting down the clipboard. "Don't you ever try to get a girl?" Leon turned his chair to him.
"I should be asking you the same thing. Didn't you and Aerith go on a date?"
"Yeah well, pssh, you know how dates go…" Cloud tries to avoid the subject now.
"Yes but how was it. Aerith was acting like a teenager again and called me about it like how she used to do before. Man, I thought that passed by a long time ago."
"Old habits die."
"Yes they do."
"Ah Roxas…" Hayner trailed off as he began to worry. Olette suddenly looked behind her with evil glowing eyes looking at their direction and Roxas, Hayner, and Pence got spooked and scared like little girls. They see her slowly look at the bar of soap and swing her brush hitting it towards them at full speed.
"Whoa! Look at that shot!" one student called out.
"Counter it man!" Hayner ordered pushing him away. Roxas prepared to swing and did so but he missed.
"Whoa! Did you guys see that?! Roxas just missed a nice slap shot from Olette!" said Tidus, as all their classmates were shocked to see what just happened.
"Oh Roxas. I was just returning the favor to you," she said still pissed off. "Guess I'm too fast for you wimp!" Olette started to walk away when Roxas shot the soap at her again targeting her back. It almost hits her unguarded when Kairi soon steps in stopping dead in its tracks making it go in the air a little and swings it right back hitting Roxas in the face as he fell flat on his face on the ground. Kairi gave a smirk.
"Roxas!" Hayner and Pence helped him getting up. The whole class was watching what was going on and thought they were having a hockey game except in a pool. Ms. Shimizu was watching amazed and entertain to see her students suddenly getting tough. She wanted to break it up but thought of something else.
"Alright! Listen everyone!" she yelled. "We're gonna have our own game of battle of the sexes! All participates report inside the pool! Anyone wants out, get out! Winners will get to decide for what we can do for the upcoming school festival!"
"Have you've gone insane?!" Pence shouted to her thinking she was crazy but looked behind him to see he was missing from supporting Roxas and see him and Hayner fall.
"Well, we haven't really have a class rep for our class and I really don't know what should do for the festival," Ms. Shimizu answered.
"I'll play! This will be fun!" Kairi cheered.
"So am I! Time for payback!" Olette agreed.
"On second thought, I'm not sorry for hitting Olette with the soap!" Roxas says. "I'm playing too!" Soon enough, almost the whole class decided to join in, as they get ready for the competition. This was sure going to get ugly. Each sex stood on different sides of the pool and looked at each other holding the brushes.
"Alright girls! Let's kick some butt! Our booth will be a café!" Kairi yelled. Her team consists of Olette, Selphie (shocking isn't it?) and her evil followers, and a few others of their class.
"Boys! Don't screw this up! We're going for a restaurant!" Roxas shouts. His team consists of Hayner, Pence and a few of their classmates. "You're going down Kairi!"
"We'll see about that!" she said smirking.
"Now students, finals will be coming up next quarter and I must inform you to study well," the teacher tells them. Sora and Xion were in the same class listening to their history teacher but their teacher was no fun. The school's festival was coming up and they wish they were talking about it since this was their homeroom too. "Even if it is next quarter, we still want to keep this school's reputation for being one of the top ten schools in Japan," he continued writing notes on the board.
"I heard your quitting soccer," Xion whispered to Sora while copying the notes on the board.
"Yeah I am. I have more fun being on the swim team than playing soccer. Takes up too much time for me doing two things," he answered to her doing the same thing as her. "Plus, I can spend more time with Kairi."
"Aww. That's so sweet of you," Xion said sweetly.
"Well I told her I wasn't happy being in soccer and she asked why be in it if you're not happy."
"True," she admits and continues to copy but then wanted to ask another question. "So what's going on with your brother and Namine? The two look like they're already going out." Sora had an odd feeling in him when she said that and a small worried look but Xion didn't see it.
"She likes him… but he doesn't know that," he replied smiling.
"Well, your brother is naïve right now for not seeing it. I'm surprised Tsuki Girl didn't blog about this."
"Me too," Sora says like he was tired. "We're off her radar since we haven't done anything blog worthy to be on it." Now it made him think. What if she does find out and the school knows? Well, Roxas wouldn't care since he knows but Namine doesn't know that he knows she likes him. The outcome was something to think of if she ever did find out. Last thing we need is her having a mental breakdown, but its Namine. Like that would happen. Then again, there are still things they don't know about Namine since she still isn't quite an open person even if sometimes she may seem like one.
Class 2-C was doing their little pool hockey game. No team has been able to score as it has been going on for ten minutes. This battle was getting heated up as somebody would surprise the class of what they can do and Kairi was mainly the person doing those things with her swift agility, flips, hits, and shots. Just now, Hayner shoots a strong one aiming straight at one of the girls. It was coming fast and it looked like she couldn't hit or she'll miss but Kairi slides under her and hits right back at them. She thanks Kairi for saving her. Soon enough, another one comes their way and Olette hits it. The girls have been giving quite a show.
"What is wrong with you guys?! We need to score a goal!" Roxas yelled.
"Well if Kairi wasn't there, this would be easy," Hayner tells him.
"He's right. Kairi is their star player. We need a plan B," Roxas thought examining his surroundings. "What to do? What to do?" Then he got an idea putting a smirk on his face. "That's it!"
"Watch out girls. I know Roxas and when he smirks like that, he's got an idea," Olette tells her team.
"Nothing I can't handle," Kairi said standing by the goal area.
"On the contrary Kairi," Roxas says to her as she raised an eyebrow. "I think you can't. Men! Form a wall!"
"A what?!" Selphie said. The boys formed a line that was a wall and Roxas was behind them and started to run for them. The girls were worried and were chickening out when they came at full force. Some try to stop it but got ran over or pushed away.
"I'll try stopping them!" Olette determinedly said holding her brush tight. "Aaahhh!" Too bad she failed when she got knocked out.
"Thanks a lot Olette," Kairi said flat staring at her when she screams. Soon, they reach the goal and the place was clear of the knocked out girls and Kairi left standing.
"Whoa! Look at them go!" a student said amazed watching from above.
"Look at them butts of the girls!" Tidus said in excitement taking pictures of their knocked out bodies of their butts. Then a girl hits him on the hand with her fist.
"Pervert!" she said.
~ Secret Agent Kairi ~
"Hey that's not fair," Kairi said looking around her.
"Life is never fair Kairi," Pence tells her. Then they formed a line and all move apart from each other with Roxas being at the end. Then he shots and it started a chain reaction of the other boys hitting it as it passed through them. It looked too fast for Kairi as she swings but missed.
"Oh yeah!" Hayner cheered.
"Come on girls! We can beat them!" Ms. Shimizu cheers. Kairi then remembered something. There were no rules to this game. No rules were applied when they started and she was starting to come up with something clever that was just she only since her teammates were knocked out. There was an open spot and Kairi just manage to get a clear shot and run past the boys.
"Don't let her get it!" Roxas yelled as he went to get the soap. Each guy blocked her path but failed miserably as she hits them with her brush spinning it around and holding it still rushing towards Roxas. "Crap!" Roxas ran faster upon seeing Kairi.
"You can't outrun me Roxas!" she shouted catching up.
Aerith was in the house by herself. "Hey Hoshi!" she said picking up their puppy. Well, almost alone. None of them have actually left the house alone with him. There was always gonna be somebody at home to play with him. "Wanna play?" she asked him. "Oh okay, I'll put you down." Hoshi walked off and Aerith saw him go. "Heh… man I'm lonely. Damn Cloud. Why did he have to go to Tokyo again with Leon? Even the dog doesn't want to play with me," she said to herself grabbing her cellphone to give him a call. She waited for the phone to be answer but it went straight to voicemail and hung up.
"I guess he is busy." Then she started to think about the date they had. She started to drift off into her own world remembering the dance. Dreaming of it and remembering that feeling she had while dancing with him. It was like they were dancing once again. That's until Aerith open her eyes and sees herself holding Hoshi in her hands. "Oh man, I need to stop acting like lovey dovey teenage girl again."
Kairi catches up to Roxas side-by-side with him. "You can still back out Kairi," Roxas tells her.
"Not. A. Chance." The lock horns as they see the bar of soap in front of their eyes. "Hey look! Hi Megan Fox!"
"Where?" said Roxas excited but noticed and stopped. "Hey!"
"You snooze, you lose Roxas!" she shouted already far ahead of him. She stops and takes a shot and scores! "Wohoo! Score! And again!" she then takes another and repeats the whole process.
"Hey! You can't do that!" Roxas complained.
"Not like we agreed on any rules when we stated," Kairi shots back sticking her tongue out and pulling her eye. "We won! Girls rule!" Tidus slides behind her on the ground trying to get her picture of her butt but fails when he hits his head on the side.
"Hm?" Kairi stops cheering and sees Tidus holding the top of his head. "What are you doing Tidus?"
"Nothing," he answered.
"That was a great game everyone!" Ms. Shimizu shouted. "Café it is for the festival!" Everybody from the pool recovers and gets out as one them bends down and turns the value to fill the pool with water. But it starts to become to be stubborn seeing it won't turn. Kairi comes in and tries to turn but it wouldn't. Roxas joined as he bends down and tries to help her but it still wouldn't happen. While this was happening, Tidus was being chased by a few of the girls by taking pictures of their butts while they were unconscious around the area. Roxas and Kairi struggle to turn it still. Tidus soon ran by when the valve broke off and a body of water started gushing out upward causing it to rain on the class.
"This is great," Olette said blankly.
Next time on "Secret Agent Kairi"
"What would you like sir?" she asked him seeing a red head guy with a blonde girl and a blue haired man that had a strange scar on his face. Xion felt a weird vibe with them since seeing that mark on that guy but they looked pretty normal.
It's Tsuki High's Cultural Festival
Aerith took a sip from her drink and noticed something from a distance stopping. She saw one of Kairi's friends, Xion, working at the cashier with three people that seemed oddly familiar. "Hey guys."
"What is it?" Leon asked going up to her.
"Do you think those three look familiar to you?" she asked them.
And a lot of things…
"Three of the Organization members are here Kairi and you know what that means," Leon told her as she just stood there looking at him.
"Hey, do you wanna get out of that penguin of yours and walk around the school to see what else is there?" Namine offered. Roxas was thinking about this. Should he tell her the truth now? Nah, this isn't even the right time and place to even tell her. Maybe later he wills… if it gets to that moment.
"Sure, why not?" he replied as his friend just smiled.
... Can happen
"Wanna hear a secret?" Namine asked Roxas.
File 14: I Spy A Liar & Bad Guys
I know, I said before this story should start get serious and all but this ain't full on drama where it has to be serious all the time. Comedy is a great to express this story since that's what I was sort of aiming for also. I hoped you guys liked this chapter more than the last one and will stay tune for the next thanks to the preview I gave you guys.
Thanks for reading this chapter and review please!