Here's chapter 6! Hope you enjoy!
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Warnings: Eventual BoyXBoy, and a bit of cursing.
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Chapter 6 will finish off the school day and there will be a lot of Kairi and Axel in it. There will also be some Roxas and maybe some of Seifer even – we haven't seen him in a while.
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o7: What an act.
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He's going to ask me about it again. I know it. Kairi nervously clutched her books to her chest, regretful of even bringing the stupid white book to school. She'd already made to many scenes withthe too – observant Sora in view. Now the brunet was suspicious and wondering what was wrong with her.
There are a lot of things wrong with me, Or maybe she was just different . . . very different. She didn't think the way other girls did, and she even had a hard time connecting with anyone, even her own family. But she honestly couldn't help it. She was hooked to these insane ideas and the white book was her life. She really didn't have anything else.
"I think this is worse than an addiction," She mumbled out loud.
Sora heard and twitched his head to look at her, "Huh?"
She faked a grin, "Nothing, just talking to myself."
She was apparently wasn't that horrible of a liar, because Sora bought that one with no suspicion. She took a small breath of relief and kept all her thoughts to herself. She couldn't afford having Sora think she was any weirder then he already did. Even if she wasn't normal – she could pretend for the time being.
They reached the Chemistry classroom, and sat at their table. As Sora was trying – and hopelessly failing – to put on a pair of goggles, Kairi silently went through her stuff. She swiftly pulled out the white book and places it under all her books and put them on the floor – she had to resist any temptation to do something abnormal again. She pulled on her goggles and left them to sit on top of her head, and then she rolled up her sleeves and looked at the instruction sheet before them. It listed simple experiments that they had already done and Kairi smiled as she reviewed the list, "Okay Sora, this is easy –"
She stopped and giggled as she saw that Sora was still struggling with the goggles – they were tangled and horizontal across his face. He smiled sheepishly and dropped his hands that were pulling and fidgeting with the goggles, "Er . . . a little help please?"
Kairi just giggled, "Here, this is how you put them on." After a minute she fixed the goggles and adjusted them correctly over Sora's eyes. "Jeeze Sora, this isn't rocket science!"
Sora glared from behind the goggles and scoffed, "Okay, Ha –ha. What are we doing anyway?" He snatched the paper and as his eyes scanned the page, confusion washed over his face.
Kairi laughed airily, "Oh don't worry, I know exactly what to do." She reached and grabbed the paper from his hands. "You can be my delivery boy!"
"Oh joy," Sora replied sarcastically, eyes rolling. "Aren't I lucky?"
"Yes you are," Kairi said cheerfully, ignoring his sarcasm and enjoying taunting him. She picked up a small beaker, and handed to him. "Can you fill this with water for me?"
Sora sighed, and slid off the stool, "Fine." He retorted irritably. "And for the record, I am not your delivery boy!"
"Sure Sora," She agreed lightly, biting back laughter that tickled her throat. As Sora walked off towards the sinks, Kairi started setting up all the beakers swiftly and easily. She really did love chemistry . . . or was it just the pure joy of mixing to make completely new creations? Kairi leaned her head down, to set her chin down on the table as she viewed the colored chemicals intently. She gingerly plucked the test tube filled with blue from the holder and slowly poured it into a rather large beaker. The blue swirled and changed a bit – but was never less still blue. She could never understand how this honestly interested her – at first it was just her trying to like it for a good grade . . . but now, it was a passion.
But it's really more than passion, Kairi thought. It's like a . . . obsession almost. But I can't stop now, I made a promise.
She sighed and grabbed another beaker with red and poured it in with the blue. The colors stilled, and slowly merged into to a dark orchard color. Kairi continuously mixed it, making the contents stir. She heard footsteps start to approach, "It's about time Sor –"As soon as she looked up, she look down. "Oh. What do you want?"
It was Axel who approached her, he scoffed and sat down in Sora's vacant seat, "That's quite an act you've got princess."
"Don't call me that," Kairi hissed out, eyes narrowed.
Axel rolled his eyes and yet smirked slightly as he leaned against the table, "Your right, that names too nice – how about –"
Kairi shook her head, "I'd rather not hear it." She still didn't look at him, but put her focus on the multiple colored beakers. She just wished that Sora would hurry up – what was taking him so long anyway?
"Ah, well fair enough," Axel moved from the seat, and edged around the table to face his cousin. "I must ask, what is so interesting about these chemicals?"
Kairi glared, and finally looked up briefly to snap, "What do you want?"
Axel leaned across the table, to look directly at her at eye level, "Why'd you do it?"
Kairi edged back and pulled her head up, and with an irritated expression retorted, "Why'd you?"
Axel pulled back and broke out laughing, "Touché." He edged around the table, sitting back down in the seat beside Kairi. "But really . . . why do you even hate me?"
Kairi rolled her eyes and snorted, "You're a rude, cocky, idiotic playboy who doesn't care about anyone but yourself. Don't deny it."
Axel winced and put his hand on his heart, "Ouch that hurts."
"It better," Kairi muttered under her breath. She then brought her head up a smiled sarcastically, "And do I dare ask why you hate me?"
"Oh," Axel laughed out. "You know exactly why."
"But I didn't do it," Kairi reasoned, eyes saddened. "I feel guilty enough already! Do you have to rub it in? You're the only one who even cares about it anymore!"
"Well I should care – everyone should care!" Axel narrowed his eyes at her, but once he saw howmiserble she looked, he softened his gaze and sighed. ". . . Do you still have it?"
Kairi nodded numbly, and Axel told her, "Kairi, you can't become something you're not. If you'll just stop pretending and give up the act . . ." He trailed off and heaved a breath. "I say you should put it back and forget everything."
Kairi shook her head, "I can't –"She closed her eyes briefly. "– I . . . I'm obsessed."
"No you're not," Axel argued. "You just don't want to go back to how you were. And I like that part – but what I don't like is what you're trying to be."
"You don't get it," Kairi said, "This is all I can be. This is . . . me."
Axel finally shrugged and sighed, "It isn't you . . . but oh well. Go your way."
"Thank you," She whispered, and continued to slowly do her work, not noticing – or caring – that Axel was still standing there.
"Oh yeah," Axel said, smirking. "I met Roxas."
As he walked off, Kairi almost dropped the beaker she was clutching with a fist. Her eyes were wide and mouth agape as she watched her cousin walk away. How did that happen?
She set the beaker down softly with trembling fingers.
. . . And how did he know that it'd bother me?
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Sora sighed heavily; Kairi is going to be sooooo ticked.
It was nearly the end of the period and he still hadn't completed his first task of filling a beaker with water . . . but it wasn't his fault! First, the faucet wouldn't work, and when it finally did – he almost flooded the classroom. And to top it off, Demyx had spotted him and ran over to hug him and talk for ages. With fifteen minutes left, Sora finally filled his beaker with water and walked very carefully back to the table. He quickly set down the beaker and winced, ready for any complaint or scolding he had coming. But nothing came.
He blinked and looked down at the red head; she hadn't even looked up.
"Er Kai?" He asked hesitantly, sitting down. She looked up, and tilted her head to look at him. She smiled.
"Oh, hey Sora. About time," She took the beaker of water and started pouring different chemicals of every kind and sort into multiple different beakers. It was amazing how fast and swift she could do all this.
"Yeah, Sorry," Sora shrugged his shoulders and smiled awkwardly – He was trying to forget that Kairi ignored his presence, as if she was in a trance again. "I got held up -Demyx again."
Kairi laughed half – heartedly, "He really loves you."
"Oh lucky me," Sora rolled his eyes but smiled none the less. Things were silent between the two as Kairi worked with the chemicals and Sora watched awed. He didn't even care at the moment to ask her about the white book, or Roxas, or even Axel. He just wanted to watch her do something that she had a knack for and was truly brilliant at. It was worth it.
Class ended, and Kairi told Sora to go ahead and she'd clean everything up. Sora was hesitant, but finally bid Kairi goodbye and made it toward his next and last period, gym.
Oh great, more 'fun', Sora mourned at the thought of gym, but then realized it'd be his chance to talk with Roxas. He really hoped that he was okay – and that the blond would forgive him. He made his way into the main gym and into the boys changing room. He grabbed his loners – Very reluctantly of course – and changed quickly. He spotted Roxas by his locker and walked over.
"Er, hey . . . Roxas,"
The blond turned and smiled sincerely, "Hey Sora. Turns out gym aren't going to be so torturous today – we're playing badminton."
At that, Sora felt enlightened. He decided to not question Roxas' good mood, but enjoy it. Maybe Olette did something? He put his clothes in Roxas' locker and they walked into the gym together. They were allowed to go to the opposite gym early to start badminton, and of course Roxas led the way because Sora had absolutely no clue where he was going. The other gym was smaller and multiple nets were set up and a bucket in the middle held rackets. Roxas grabbed to rackets and handed one to Sora – who examined it in awe and amazement. Destiny Islands never had anything like this!
Roxas grabbed a little ball with plastic attached to it, "Okay Sora, this is a birdie –"
"But it looks nothing like a bird," Sora commented, and Roxas rolled his eyes.
"I know, but that's not the point," Roxas told him, guiding them to a net in the corner of the gym.
"But why'd they call it that?" Sora inquired, as he walked to the other side. "It looks nothing like a bird!"
"It's just a name, Sora!" Roxas exclaimed exasperatedly. "It doesn't matter!"
Sora blushed and scratched the back of his head with his free hand, while the other held the racket, "Um, Sorry."
The blond smiled and laughed, "Its okay, and it's actually pretty funny how clueless you are."
"Hey!"
"Anyway," Roxas continued. "The object of the game is to hit the birdie back and forth over the net trying to not let it hit the ground. Got it?"
Sora nodded hesitantly, not really sure what to think. Roxas grinned as he held the birdie by the edge with his fore finger and thumb and held his racket underneath it, then he swung the racket upward and the birdie flew in the air and over the net. Sora gripped the racket with two hands, and swung the racket as hard as he could. His eyes closed on impact and when they opened, he immediately started looking around the gym for the birdie, "It went so far I can't even see it!"
"Um Sora," Roxas was pointing towards the ground, and Sora's smiled faltered when he saw that the birdie was merely a foot away from him. He bent over to pick it up and narrowed his eyes when doing so.
"Aw man," Sora groaned. "I suck at this game!"
"You don't suck," Roxas tried to reason. " . . . Well you do actually but –"
"I just said that!' Sora complained irritably, throwing the birdie back to Roxas. The blond caught it and intervened, "BUT this is your first time . . . and that's not how you swing a racket."
"Then how DO you swing this thing," Sora whined, swinging his racket around desperately trying to find the right way. Roxas shook his head and went over to help the brunet.
After twenty minutes, Sora finally got the idea of the game and was actually winning some against Roxas. The gym had filled up and just about everyone was now laying and each court was filled. Sora was about to make his serve to Roxas when he heard a voice that made him cringe and almost drop the birdie.
"Hey losers!"
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Roxas groaned at the sound of the cocky and loud voice. It was none other than Seifer. He narrowed his eyes at the other blond as he walked towards them with his gang. Sora looked absolutely petrified as he backed away to stand next to Roxas. He was clutching his racket as some sort of defense mechanism.
"What are you doing here?" Roxas sneered. "Shouldn't you be ditching and failing some class?"
"Ah But I am Strife," Seifer smirked. "And what would be a better use of my time to visit some 'good friends'."
"Yeah sure," Roxas snorted. Seifer was slowly walking closer with Rai, Fuu, and Vivi in his wake, and the two boys were slowly backing away. Seifer never really did physical harm – but you could never guess when it came to Seifer.
"Hey Leonhart," Seifer hollered at Sora. "Are you still as much of a wuss as you were back at the sandlot?"
"Just ignore him Sor," Roxas muttered under his breath, not taking his gaze off of Seifer. But Sora was already starting to boil as he clutched his racket tighter and almost raised it but he fought off the urge. Seifer kept throwing out comments that were actually turning out to be more lame then insulting. But then the blond said something that pushed Sora right off the edge.
"How's your brother Leonhart?" Seifer taunted. "Still as much of a poser? Who's he trying to foul?"
Now that was what Sora couldn't take. It bothered him when people insulted him, but when his brother got involved . . . Sora got flaring angry. No one could insult Leon - noone. He started to charge towards the four, a racket in hand. He started brandishing it wildly and violently and Seifer's eyes widened as he pushed past his friends and ran for his life. The others ran after him, and Sora didn't stop until they were out of the gym.
"Yeah run!" Sora yelled, still swinging his racket. "That'll teach you a lesson!"
Sora finally started to take deep breaths and lowered his racket as he walked back to Roxas. The blond's eyes were wide as he walked up to Sora and said, "Oh my god. Do you realize what you just did?"
Sora didn't answer at first, as he was still breathing heavily. Then his face twisted into a terrified and unbelieving look, "Oh my god! I just chased Seifer Almasy with a badminton racket!"
"Okay," Roxas started, taking a deep breath. "That was honestly the weirdest thing I ever seen."
"He's going to kill me!" Sora cried out, hands spread far apart.
Roxas bit his lip and said, "Well, right then . . . it looked like you were the 'killer'."
"That isn't helping!" Sora retorted. He looked at the racket in his hand and threw it on the floor, "I am never playing badminton again!"
"You know you're making this into a bigger deal then it really is. I mean . . . you're gonna be like famous!" Roxas tried to comfort the despairing brunet as they started to head out of the gym. Sora just scoffed and mumbled, "It's my second day, and I'm already got a reputation for being the freak with the haunted house and the psycho with a racket! It's my god damn second day Roxas! That's not normal!"
"Okay it's a little weird. . ." Roxas admitted. "But, that means you're pretty special Sora. And besides normal is over rated!"
"Yeah yeah, sure," Soraspat outand rolled his eyes. "Then you're basically calling yourself over rated."
"Well something pretty out of the ordinary happened to me today," Roxas grinned, remembering the past incident. "I talked to Axel."
Sora stopped in his tracks andgrinned unbelievingly, "Seriously?! When? Where? How? Are you guys together?"
Roxas laughed, happy to be on a lighter subject with Sora, "One question at a time! Please! After I ran out at lunch, I went to the bathroom. He came in there and kind of . . . comforted me," Roxas paused, smiling and taking in the thought. "Then I told him my name, and he asked me if I was going to your party and I said I don't know and-"
"Wait, wait," Sora held up his hands, and cocked a brow. "What do you mean you don't know if you're coming?! You're the one who came up with the whole idea!" Roxas replied quickly, "I was really upset then and I wasn't sure. But I'm definitely going . . . I promise!"
Sora lowered his hands, thennodded and smiled, "Okay, I get it now. Go on please." Roxas nodded and continued, "And when I said I didn't know, he said he really would like for me to go and that he was glad he met me. Then the bell rang."
Sora grinned cheeringly, "I just know this is the start! Way to go Roxas!" The blond blushed red but still couldn't hold back a smile, "Thanks Sora. I still can't believe it."
With the mood lightened, they walked back and changed and said their goodbyes. Sora cheerfully grabbed his things from his locker and made his way back to Market Street, he made it through the forest as quickly as possible, but still ready for that stalker of a ghost to pop up on him again. When nothing came and he reached the door, he relaxed greatly, and walked into the house, "Leon! I'm Home!"
He didn't expect an answer so he then threw his stuff in his bedroom, and walked back to the main hall and down to the kitchen where he suspected Leon to be. He was right. Leon was sitting in his usual chair with a cup of coffee and that 1820 newspaper again.
"How was your day?" Leon asked, not taking his eyes off the paper. Sora merely shrugged, not wanting to tell his brother about the incident about Seifer or anything else, "Nothing much."
Leon just nodded, and remained silent. Sora decided to spend some time in his room – he once again had no homework, and had nothing to do. He walked up the left stairs, and he felt a sudden chill coming from the white room. No . . . I am not going back in there. He ignored it and darted to his bedroom, hoping nothing strange would happen tonight.
But that's the thing; he could only hope. And that was never enough.
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"Are you ready?" Riku asked. "Or is it too soon?"
He and Namine were in the white room. Riku was sitting in one chair, and Namine was in the other – sketching in her sketchbook. She looked up at him and smiled softly, "I think we're all ready. We can do it tonight."
"But are you sure . . .?"
Namine stopped sketching and ripped a piece of paper from her sketch book. She stood up from her chair and walked over to Sora's picture. She put the other picture right beside him; it was Leon.
"I'm positive this will work. We have to let him know before the party," She sighed. "They'll be a lot of parts to play, and a lot of targets. We have to be careful."
Riku nodded hesitantly and asked, "So are you going to go in his mind and talk to him a little?"
Namine laughed lightly and Riku raised a brow. She started to walk towards him, "Riku . . . I have to keep the spell working . . . so I'm not going in. You are."
Riku could only gap at her, at a complete loss of words.
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Well here it is!
The Axel and Kairi part is suppose to be confusing and odd, that's the whole point. But I'll tell you this: Kairi hates Axel for just his attitude and personality and Axel hates Kairi because of something she did and how she's acting now. It's very weird how their relationship will be explained, and I planned it like that!
Also, the badminton part is all because I am a complete klutz when it comes to gym – but I love badminton! So I just had to put it in there! And Sora isn't tough or anything – he just had a moment where he couldn't take Seifer's taunting anymore so he just . . . snapped. XD. Hey, it could happen to anyone!
So next chapter will be all about Sora and Riku . . . So basically it's their "official" meeting! Finally! No more of Sora running away!
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