Ok… this is not the chapter that wraps up the shuttle trip. That will be the next chapter, I think. This chapter will wrap up that thing I did with Sora and Kairi. Within the next few chapters, a lot of the stuff I did with Naminé and Roxas will be explained as well. Well, onto this chapter then.
Chapter 27: Embrace
Alas, all good things must come to an end, including passionate kisses, though this one probably broke every record involving what some affectionately known as "Tongue Judo" in that world at the very least. It was seventeen minutes and forty nine seconds of pure heaven for Kairi and Sora, during which Kairi somehow ended up on top of Sora despite the IV's attached to both of their arms and the fact that she was too weak to climb a single step, let alone a bed. Just goes to show that love is truly one of the most powerful forces in the multiverse if it enables solid objects to pass through other solid objects and injured people to do things that would normally be rendered impossible to them by their injuries. Physics, step aside. Love has entered the building.
` Their lips finally, reluctantly, hesitantly parted. Kairi pulled her face a little bit away from Sora's so she could stare into his bright blue eyes. They were so bright, so warm, so compassionate that it was all she could do to not feel unworthy of his attention. She broke her gaze away from his and looked around the room. Against all odds, nobody had walked in on them during their successful attempt for the world's longest kiss. Or at least nobody who was still there in the room. For all they knew, somebody could have walked in, stood there for ten minutes, and walked out without them noticing in the slightest. For those seventeen minutes and forty nine seconds, they were in their own heavenly world. A nuclear warhead going off couldn't have gotten their attention while they were in that state.
She turned back towards Sora's face. The movement of her head caused their bodies to rub together, causing a pleasurable tingling sensation to spread throughout her body, leaving her breathless. She was suddenly extremely aware of the fact that underneath her hospital gown she had on absolutely nothing. A sudden wave of heat overcame her, especially in certain regions of her anatomy which need not be described here. She knew that Sora was experiencing the same feelings that she was, though they manifested themselves in a totally different way that was quite unique to the male anatomy.
As she felt the effects that the feelings were having on Sora's body, she blushed for three reasons. She blushed because that is what any normal human being would do in a situation like this, because of the pure embarrassed, yet pleasured excitement that she was feeling right now, and she blushed at the thought that anybody would ever experience what Sora was experiencing right now as a result of her, especially Sora. Throughout all of this, her gaze remained locked with Sora's and she could see that he was blushing with embarrassed excited pleasure as well. Her pulse started to pound in her veins with even more force than it had been before which was saying something considering that rather long make out session they had just experienced.
"Well… I should probably get off of you before somebody wanders in here and gets the wrong idea." She said, struggling to keep her voice calm and level despite the rapid beating of her heart sounding in her ears caused by the excitement induced adrenaline that was coursing through her bloodstream.
"… Yah. That might be a good idea." He said in a tone of voice remarkably similar to the one that she had just used. He probably felt the same way that she did right now.
"Yah…" she said. Yet, she did not want to get off of him. Right there on top of him, kind of sort of in his arms, she felt … wanted, as If somebody actually wanted to be around her. Usually people tended to avoid her. Apparently her ability to go from a quiet, reserved, sensitive teenage girl to a sweet, hyper, kind of scary teenage girl in a matter of seconds was a put off for potential friends. And though she had been friends with Sora for a long time and had been with him in a position quite like this less than a week before, he had never made her feel this way before. Suddenly, inexplicably, her fears and sorrows were gone, melted away somehow by the heat of the emotions she was feeling. She felt as if she could leap in to the sky and fly free from those who dislike her, fly free with Sora and be happy until the end of time.
Alas, those feelings were tragically cut short, like so many things, by the distant clanging of footsteps in the corridor outside of their room. Now that clanging could be from either the footsteps of Lexaeus, who wears metal soled boots, or the walking style of Luxord, who's footsteps sounded like he had metallic soled shoes on due to the amount of coins stashed on his personage, especially in his boots. Lexaeus walking in on them in this position would not be so bad. Luxord however… that would be one of those 'oh shit oh shit we are so screwed' situations. Knowing Luxord, he probably had three different betting rings started on exactly how far they would go, when, where, and probably their respective positions during whatever act they were committing. So within minutes of him coming in, everybody on the freakin ship would know the details of one of their more intimate moments, and some people would actually win money off of it.
Kairi quickly tried to get off of Sora. She somehow managed to get off and into a standing position at his bedside as the distinctive footsteps approached the entrance to the room to the point of basically being inside of it. Kairi turned her head to see who it was.
To both of their surprises, it was actually just a member of the ship's crew who just happened to be wearing metal soled boots.
"There a meeting in twenty minutes in the ship's galley. Your presence is requested. You should probably start walking soon if you are to make it to the galley in time." asked the crew member, completely unaware of the fact that Sora might never walk again. Sora's smile faded from a large happy one to a small sad smile.
"Sure, that would be fine for me. Except, if you haven't noticed, one of us can't walk right now. His leg is too broken because I moved too slowly. Now … I would suggest you get him a wheelchair. Now. Or else." Said Kairi in a voice filled with that brand of cold fury that overlays overwhelming guilt and sorrow during outbursts such as this. A few tears had begun to stream across her cheeks, glinting like stars on a cold winter's night in the dull light of the medical room. Her keyblade suddenly appeared in her hand.
The crew member, scared for his life, stammered out what sounded to be an apology and ran out of the room, his extremely loud and clangie footstep echoing behind him as he sprinted full tilt towards a medical supply closet that hopefully for his sake held a wheelchair. If not… whatever she would do with that keyblade shook that thought from his head. A wheelchair had to be there. It had to be. If it wasn't… well, this wasn't going to be pretty.
As the loud footsteps faded into the distance, Kairi began to lose the cold rage that had enabled her to keep control of her sorrow. The sorrow and guilt began to overwhelm her emotionally, causing her to lose control over her feelings. The tears began to flow a bit more freely down her face as she began to slightly shake from the letdown of adrenaline that had been flowing throughout her body during that confrontation.
"Kairi… this isn't your fault. It isn't anywhere close to being your fault. Nothing that anybody, you included, could have done would have prevented this from happening. If I never walk again, its my own fault, not yours. " He said, his voice sympathetic .She semi collapsed into a chair next to Sora's bed as her keyblade disappeared from her hands. A small series of sobs were racking her body.
"But… again, if it wasn't for me getting injured, you wouldn't have worsened the injury on your leg. It is my fault. " she said, her voice cracking with emotion as her expression of sorrow shifted to one of guileful sorrow.
"… You saved my life doing that. I don't…" the rest of Sora's confused statement was cut off by the arrival of the out of breath crew member with a wheel chair, preventing this conversation from becoming a rehash of one that they had last chapter.
"Ok, can you help me get him into the wheelchair?" asked the crew member to Kairi, ignoring her red tear streaked eyes and her other obviously distressed body language such as her pale face and the slight shaking of her body. She nodded a yes, paused a moment to gather herself, and set out to help the crew member remove Sora from the bed without injuring him even more. AN: Sora has one of those casts that is connected to the ceiling on his leg. I am not sure exactly how she managed to get on top of him, off of him, and get him out of the bed with that thing on his leg.
After about two or three minutes of work, they managed to get Sora into the wheelchair. Exactly how they managed that fete is a tale best left untold, as again it violates a couple of rules of physics and a rule of grammar when the crew member somehow used the word ass as a pronoun after having Sora fall on him. It was interesting, to say the very least on the matter
And so they set off with Kairi walking next to Sora's wheelchair, which was being pushed by the crew member. At first, as they walked along, Kairi was fine. But after a short period of time, the wound on her left side started to ache with a slight, dull ache. It gradually got worse and worse, and she couldn't help grunting with pain, her face contorting from the hurt.
"Are you all right?" asked Sora, concern evident in his voice and on his face.
"Yah, I'm fine." She lied. "Let's get going or we will be late." Sora looked at her for a moment, shrugged, and then they began to move again. As they went farther, however, the pain grew. Eventually, they turned a corner and Kairi was suddenly overcome with a sudden wave of pain, causing her to cry out and reach for the bulkhead for support.
"Kairi!" shouted Sora in alarm, worried. He reached out to her with his right hand to attempt to comfort her.
"… What the hell is located near here?" asked Kairi through teeth clenched at the pain.
"The engine room is nearby. Our hyperspace engines are powered by an extremely small amount of Nothing." Said the crew member, looking at her with a curious expression on his face.
"Well that explains it. Apparently my wound will flare up with pain every time I approach Nothing." Said Kairi as she grimaced at the pain.
"Is this the only way to get to the galley?" asked Sora, concerned for Kairi's well being.
"Yes." Said the crew member in an apologetic tone of voice.
"Really? What kind of ship has only one way to get to the food? Wouldn't it get crowded in that corridor very easily?" asked Sora, shocked and confused.
"Actually, there are two ways to get there. You see, this ship is built on a design of three main corridors running the length of the ship. One on the left, one on the right, and one in the middle. The two on the sides curve with the ship and meet the center corridor at two places, right before the bridge and right before the engine room. The engine room path was closer to us, so we took that one. Again, I apologize." Explained the crew member.
"Yah, you should be sorry. Anyone hurts Kairi, and they will have to answer to me" Vaguely threatened Sora. His threat was actually rendered more instead of less effective by his current state, for some odd reason.
"It will not happen again. I promise. Next time I will take you guys by the bridge route." Said the crew member, who was rather scared of his two charges by this point in time. It seemed as if one of them had to threaten him every five minutes for causing pain, whether it be emotional or physical, to the other.
"… can we please get going then?" asked Kairi in a strained tone of voice. They had gotten so caught up in the conversation that they had forgotten their primary purpose for it in the first place, which was her and her pain.
"Of course. Lets go." Said the crew member as they began to move again. Each step was a struggle for Kairi, though once they turned a second corner onto the center corridor the pain began to lessen with every step they took. After about a minute or two of walking, they reached a point where there progress was impeded by a glass wall with a large door in the center.
"this is the galley. The corridor splits off to the left and the right here so that those whom aren't going to the galley can go around it and not have to go through it. Shall we enter?" explained/asked the crew member as they approached the door. Kairi and Sora nodded. Kairi opened the door, and they went in to the cafeteria.
As they entered, they saw the rest of their rather large group seated around a huge round table in the center of the room. They were approaching the table when all of a sudden an announcement came over the PA system.
"Attention. There is a hostile shuttle craft incoming on a heading that suggests it is attempting to ram us. All non essential crew prepare to evacuate the ship."
And that is it for this chapter. I'll have either the rest of what happened on the shuttle to bring them to this situation or the next part with Kairi and Sora up next week. Till then, I bid you to review and farewell. Also, Elen, I am so sorry about my slowness with that review. I really and truly am.