Author's Note: Poor Sora and Kairi... I'm taking forever to update this. I'm starting to run out of ideas. Vanitas is going to be a bit OOC.
Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts is not mine.
Chapter 8: Pen-Pal
Sora hadn't heard from Kairi since she left. Kairi hadn't heard from Sora either. She had asked Selphie to tell Sora how she was doing, but Selphie never did. Kairi didn't know it, and Sora didn't know that she was supposed to. Every time Kairi asked about Sora, Selphie said that she didn't know. However, she always knew.
"Selphie! How's Sora?" Kairi asked, running up to her friend in school, already knowing what she would say.
"I don't know." Selphie replied. Kairi sighed.
"You never know. Why can't you just make friends with him?" Kairi asked.
"Kairi, he's not popular. Doing that would be stupid. Besides, if you really want to see him, visit him over Winter Break." Selphie said. Winter Break was coming up in two weeks, and started right after the Winter Formal.
"I don't have enough money." Kairi said.
"Well, I'm not paying for you." Selphie said, walking on. Kairi sighed. Selphie was never nice to her. She wished that she could make friends.
"Selphie, wait up!" Kairi cried, running to catch up to her "friend."
"YOU SAID WHAT?!" Yuffie screamed, grabbing Sora by his collar and glaring at him.
"Let me go, Yuffie." Sora said calmly. Yuffie let Sora go.
"You heard me. Kairi moved to Destiny Islands." Sora said again.
"I can't believe she's gone." Namine said sadly.
"Now the crew is incomplete..." Yuffie said.
"I don't miss her. Don't you remember what she said to us?" Aqua growled.
Sora handed her the note silently.
"Kairi... I'm so sorry!" Aqua started crying.
"Oh, Aqua! When you cry I cry!" Yuffie said, starting to cry as well.
"You guys..." Namine said, tears threatening to spill out of her eyes. Roxas put his arms around her. Sora was silent.
"Aren't you upset?" Yuffie sniffed.
"Yes. More than any of you. I loved her." Sora murmured.
"Aw, Sora!" Aqua and Yuffie said, walking over and hugging Sora. Even Namine broke away from Roxas and hugged Sora.
"Would you let me go?" Sora asked, slightly irritated.
"No." The girls said.
"Suck it up." A voice said from behind them. Tifa stood there, without Selphie.
"Selphie's on Destiny Islands with your precious friend." Tifa said.
"Is Kairi okay?" Yuffie asked, hugging Sora tighter.
"Can't... breathe..." Sora said. He was ignored.
"How should I know? Selphie won't text me." Tifa said.
"Sora!" Namine exclaimed, finally realizing that he was unconscious.
"Sora, wake up!" Aqua cried.
"Oh, please." Tifa said, walking over to them. She slapped him.
"Ouch! Who did that?" Sora asked, waking up.
"Are you alright?" Sora looked up and saw Kairi.
"Kairi?" Sora asked.
"Um... I think he's hallucinating." Kairi said. Sora blinked, and he realized that it was Namine.
"Oh. What happened?" Sora asked.
"We hugged you too tightly and you fainted." Namine said.
"Oh." Sora said simply.
"Hi! You're Kairi, right? My name's Xion." A black haired girl said to Kairi.
"Hello, Xion. Nice to meet you." Kairi said.
"If you want to, you can sit with me and my friends at lunch." Xion offered. They were walking to lunch.
"I'd love to, thanks." Kairi said as they entered the cafeteria. Destiny High sure was bigger than Twilight High.
"Everyone, this is Kairi. Kairi, this is Vanitas, Riku, Terra, and-" Xion was cut off.
"The name's Axel. Got it memorized?" Axel said. Kairi giggled.
"Kairi! What are you doing sitting with the nobodies?" Selphie asked, walking up with her other friends that Kairi hadn't met.
"Because they're nice and they're not nobodies." Kairi said.
"Then I won't be your friend anymore."
"Good. You don't tell me about Sora anyways." Kairi said.
"I told you! I don't know what's up with him!" Selphie yelled.
"You and I both know that that's a lie." Kairi spat. Selphie was silent, but stomped away.
"Who's Sora?" Xion asked.
"He's a boy from my old school, Twilight High." Kairi said.
"Twilight High? I have a pen-pal there. His name is Roxas. I think he mentioned a Sora... and a Kairi..." Xion said, deep in thought.
"I know Roxas! Roxas, Sora, Namine, Aqua, and Yuffie are my friends!" Kairi exclaimed.
"I know them! I can help you keep in touch!" Xion exclaimed.
"Are you guys going to eat your food, or can we have it?" Vanitas asked.
"Oh, Vani. Just eat it." Xion said, sliding her food over to him. Her friends dove into it. Kairi slid her food over to them as well.
"Yes! I got a letter from Xion!" Roxas said, opening the envelope.
There were two smaller envelopes inside. One said "Roxas" and the other said "Sora."
"Hey, Sora! You got a letter!" Roxas called. Sora came down the stairs, looking at him quizzically.
"My pen-pal Xion sent me this envelope, and it had these inside." Roxas said, holding them both up. Sora took the one addressed to him.
Sora,
How are you? I expect that Selphie hasn't been telling you about me. She told me she would. Anyway, I made some new friends here. Xion, Vanitas, Riku, Terra, and Axel. They're all pretty cool. I miss you and the rest of the crew though. Xion told me that she was Roxas's pen-pal, and that she could help me keep in touch with you. I stopped being friends with Selphie because she never told me about how you were. I wish I could see you. I think you'd like Riku. He's really nice. Write me back!
-Kairi
Sora blinked. Kairi wrote him a letter. Through Roxas's pen-pal.
"Who's it from?" Roxas asked.
"It's... from Kairi." Sora said. He was glad that Kairi made some friends that weren't Selphie.
"Maybe Kairi can become your pen-pal! If you want to send a letter, I can send it to Xion. Just give it to me and I'll take care of it." Roxas said.
A pen-pal? It sounded like a good idea. Sora decided to try it.
