Disclaimer: I do not own kingdom hearts or any of the characters…
Chapter 2
The office…infamously know for the wild papers thrown everywhere, the stereotypical employees, and of course, late nights consuming gallons of coffee. THE OATHKEEPER main room was no different…
"C'mon new guy, this way." Kairi ushered. Sora quite frequently would stop to look at something someone was typing, leaning close over their shoulder, this of course freaked some people out.
Suddenly a hand grabbed Sora's shirt collar pulling him away from his latest shoulder peeking victim.
"Yo, Kai is this the new guy?" asked Yuffie.
"Yeah," she glared at him, "I've got to show him around."
'Man this girl is real strong' Sora thought, admiring how Yuffie nearly lifted him off the ground. He plastered an innocent smile over his face. "Um…I guess I haven't introduced myself, I'm Sora."
"Nice to meet you Sora." Yuffie set him down and leaned in real close to his face, "Have we met before?"
"Um, not that I can recall." He replied giving a nervous laugh.
"Hey Selphie come check out the new guy!" yelled Yuffie.
"NEW GUY?" Selphie appeared from around a corner with lightning speed, and in a second was inches from Sora's face. "Wow, he's cute." This caused Sora to sweat a little, Kairi who couldn't take Selphie's man-hunting proceeded with the tour.
"Alright new guy, lets go." Kairi grabbed him and continued to drag him through the office. "You just met Yuffie, she's my photographer for most of the articles I write, don't mess with her, last time someone tried anything funny on her, she broke both of their wrists, and threw him out the window."
"Charming."
"The hyper one was Selphie, she's the one that pretty much gives us assignments on where to go and what to report on."
"Ah the yellow dress girl."
"Yeah her." Finally reaching their destination she threw Sora in the abandoned cartoonist cubicle. "Their you go, home sweet home, I hope your good at drawing kid."
"Haha, well, I don't like to put it int terms of good or bad, cause everyone has potential…" he was cut off.
"Yeah yeah, you've got your first deadline on the desk, and hopefully things will turn out alright and you won't screw up. Any questions, don't ask me, there are other people who could care more." She delivered her harsh speech and turned to leave.
Only to be stopped by a hand grabbing her arm.
"Wait, Miss Kairi," softly said Sora, "I'm really sorry about earlier with the bike, I didn't mean to give you such a bad day." Kairi tilted her head to look at his, staring into his sweet eyes, she somehow felt warmth go through her and she knew he really felt responsible for her bad day.
After a long silence."…no…it' ok Sora," she finally said his name, "it's not your fault." His hand felt so…
"Hey Page, already hitting on the new guy?" mocked a blonde haired man in the doorway.
"Ack!" Kairi quickly removed her hand and yelled at her surprise attacker, "TIDUS!"
"Didn't knew you were so quick, if I knew that, I woulda asked you out myself."
"Tidus, you have three seconds to run for your dear sweet life…1…2…" Kairi counter with fiery eyes.
"Oh shit!" Tidus bolted from the doorway.
"…3!" Kairi flew like a thunderbolt, on the heels of Tidus waving her briefcase around, "…I'll show you, you blonde bastard!"
"HEEEEELP!"
Sora just stood there, quite puzzled. "um…what just happened?"
A few weeks had gone by.
Today was like any other day, all the employes slowly came into the office, one by one.
Kairi showed up, her usual suit jacket and skirt, along with Selphie, who had a fetish with yellow, and Yuffie, her usual fetish with tom-boy skimpiness. One of the last ones to stumble in was Sora, Kairi had mostly managed to stay away from him, but of course, any time the saw each other or passed by one another, Sora gave her a big smile and she just walked away.
Today Kairi was to receive her new assignment, supposedly something big enough to make the front page. Kairi sat impatiently at her desk, eagerly awaiting the chance to grab her pad and recorder, drag Yuffie along, and get the action rolling.
But Cid for some reason seemed a little discouraged, as he sat in his office.
Kairi could lean over her desk and peek in through his window, all she could see was him staring at a large envelope, letting out continual sighs. Finally he signaled for Selphie to deliver them.
Kairi's heart was pumping, 'What could it be!' she excitedly thought.
"Kairi, here's the new order." Selphie tossed it to her.
"Motherofgod FINALLY!"
"Whats it about Ki?" asked Yuffie leaning over her shoulder.
"Lets see…" Kairi read the contents of the envelope, slowly taking in what it had to say, "…wow, it seems that Aeris, of the Strife family is really sick, her condition is worsening every day, they are not sure if she's gonna live or not."
"Well that explains why Cid was so sad." Barked Yuffie.
"What do ya mean Yuf?"
"Well, ya see, a long time ago, when THE OATHKEEPER was just starting out, it ran into some financial difficulty, but then for some reason, Cloud, the head of the Strife family gave Cid a large sum of money, ever since then Cid's tried to pay them back, but Aeris refuses to take it. He has become really attached to their family, I don't know what Cid would do if Aeris died."
"Omagawd, I didn't know THAT." Selphie's jaw dropped.
"Neither did I." Gawked Kairi.
After a while of just sitting there, Kairi finally took charge. "Okay Selphie, schedule me an interview with one of the Strife family, ANYONE, just get it done, then get a meeting set up with Riku from the Jenova family."
"Wait wait, as in Riku…the really hot son of the Strife families arch nemesis, Sephiroth?" Yuffie, shocked at the proposition Kairi had asked.
"Yeah, that way we also know how the families enemies feel about a loss in the opposing family, you see, for years they've fought over government positions, land acquisitions, Sephiroth's intentions being a bit more corrupt than Cloud's however, this will DEFINITELY make the front page."
"Well, okay." Sheepishly agreed Selphie.
Right as they were all separating, to get ready, Yuffie halted and leaned over to Kairi.
"Don't look now, but the cartoon guy's been listening in on us." Yuffie leaned her head, focusing her camera lens on the spiky haired man, he was leaning against the door to his room, his tie loose around his neck and his button up shirt sleeves rolled up to his elbows.
"Wow," whispered Yuffie, "He sure can pull that look off, too bad you were the first one to get to him."
Kairi blushing excessively at this, "WHAT! I didn't 'get' to him at all, now go get you goddamn stuff and lets go."
"Whatever you say captain my captain." Yuffie snickered off.
Kairi looked over at where Sora had been standing only to see hi not there. She looked around curious, and only caught a glimpse of his shoulder disappearing down the staircase hallway.
'I wonder where he's off to." She brushed the thought away and readied her stuff, she was NOT going to let this opportunity get away.
Meanwhile at the manor of the Strife family.
"Roxas please come here." Said Aeris weakling, beckoning her son to come. She lay in her large room, pillows softening her head against the bed.
"Yes mother?" He replied kneeling by her bed.
"How is the search for your brother going…?" she questioned, her eyes large almost to the brink of tears. She knew her condition was worsening.
"Mother," Roxas said, lowering his head, "he's been gone for many years now, chances are that he's dead, he shouldn't have run away in the first place." Roxas's words were filled with anger that plagued the teenage boy continually, and yet underlying it was a deep sense of pain for the love of a brother he barely remembered. He could only barely remember him, but he did remember how caring he was, always thinking of others, always smiling, Roxas missed him…until that day.
"Roxas…" Aeris touched his hand and looked into his eyes hoping for a sign of hope, "please don't give up on him, I KNOW he's still out there, I can feel it."
"…" Roxas knelt there for many minutes, the silencing seemed to fill the whole manor.
"Fine mother, I will personally get the best police force on the search, I will not rest until he is found."
Aeris seemed very relieved, her body relaxed as she drifted off to a deep sleep. "Thank you…I love…you both…so much." Were her last words before she was swept away into rest.
Roxas rose to his feet, taking out his cell phone he dialed the police chiefs office number.
"Yes? Is this officer Leonheart, good, I have another assignment for you, yes, I will come down to the station personally to debrief you. It's about my older brother. We're going to find him." He hung up the phone and continued to march down the long lavish hallway.
"Sora… where are you? You bastard."
(A/N: aahhh, I bet you all were expecting that right? Oh well, at least I try. R&R plz!)