(A/N…I know it seems as if I'm just popping these chapters out like babies, but keep in mind I had this story thoroughly planned out WAY in advance! So please continue to R&R! I really like the ones I've gotten so far.)
Disclaimer: I DO NOT own kingdom hearts…so why do I have to say that every time, it is so depressing? And it should be common knowledge as well…sigh…oh well.
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Chapter 5
It was like the day after a wild office party, people whispered to one another as you walk by, giving you looks as if they know something you don't. That sums up how Kairi felt right now. The night before had been spent trying to explain to Yuffie and Tidus the situation, but to no avail.
So here she was, in the office room, having people smirk at her as they walk by. She obviously was not having a good morning…again. Her clothes were ruffled, she wore a messy bun in her hair, a black sweater and a tan skirt. As tossed and turned as she felt, she still looked incredibly good looking, aside from the tired, squinted eyes and the evil glares she sent bystanders.
'I swear, all those perverted bastards…especially Tidus…ooh I'm going to GET him.' Kairi maniacally schemed, she developed about one hundred ways to make Tidus's life a living hell in a very short amount of time. Many of them having to do with him losing a specific body part.
"PAAAAGE! In my office…NOW!" Cid's voice could be heard like a buffalo on steroids.
'Goddammit, 'the fuck does that bastard want.' She thought to herself.
Kairi trudged towards his office, as she approached she could see that he was not alone in the room, Sora was sitting in one of two chairs seated directly opposite of him.
"What's this all about?" She gave a questioning glance at Sora, but when their eyes met, he blushed and looked away, with Cid giving a great smirk.
'How do I get myself into these things…' Thought Sora, remembering his conversation with Cid minutes prior to this moment.
Flashback
"So Avalon, tell me, is it true that you and Kairi were on a date last night?"
"Well sir I wouldn't call it a date, I was escorting her home."
"Yeah yeah yeah, I know how it goes, ya know I used to have a lady of my own, man she could turn me on faster than I can turn on an engine." Cid closed his eyes as a perverted redness filled his face, suddenly he came back to reality. "I usually don't like inter employee relationships, but I think I might let this one go, considering you scored with a girl who hasn't dated in years."
Sora's face grew red and he squeaked out, "Sir I didn't…uh…score…what I mean to say is…" He didn't have the words to say.
"So how far did it go?" asked Cid, obviously enjoying Sora's discomfort.
"What?… no…we didn't…it was coffee, then we went to her apartment…" trying to explain he only dug himself deeper.
"Ooooh, so Yuffie was telling the truth, you got her to bring you into the apartment huh?"
"No! We were outside, I didn't even go in."
"Now this is starting to sound kinky…outside now?"
Sora just sat silent, bright red, he gave up trying to set things straight, it wasn't leading him anywhere.
"Haaaahaa! Just kiddin' kid, anyways, I gotta speak ta both of ya anyway…PAAAAAGE!"
End of flashback
'Really… how do I get mixed up in things like this? It must be that black cat I crossed on the way here.' Sora wondered. (A/N MEOW!)
Cid then interrupted his rather ADD train of thought. "Hey, wonder boy, quite staring off into space, here's the deal, Sora is going to take you back to the Jenova mansion to get information out of Riku, we NEED this article, it would make front pages!"
Silence before the storm.
"WHHHAAAATT?" Screamed Kairi and Sora in synchronization. Kairi pointed a finger at Sora.
"I don't need HIS help to get an interview!"
Sora tilted his head and gave a nervous smile, "Yes, she IS quite resourceful, I really don't think my services are needed."
'I can't risk going there again.' He thought to himself.
"Nonsense," said Cid, "YOU have a close relationship with that Riku guy, so I'm gonna play my cards off of that," Sora sat down in defeat. "AND, I doubt that the mansion secretary would be willing to let someone who broke in to have an interview." Cid glared at Kairi, she sat down in equally shameful defeat.
Sora looked at Kairi 'Yep, defiantly that cat'.
Kairi looked at Sora 'I can't believe this.'
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Cloud sat next to Aeris, softly touching his hand to her head.
'Her fever has gone up, this is not good.' He put a washcloth over her forehead and kneeled down beside her, staring into her face. Her face was calm and beautiful, she slept with such innocence that is seemed as if she was a child, but her features held more. One could see the wisdom that comes with old age in her face, although she was very young, she and cloud had had many great adventures.
Through the years they had set up many good organizations in the city, and also made sure no corruption had infiltrated the government system, which went very well for a while, until HE came.
Sephiroth had had power all of his life, born into a family of aristocracy, his resourcefulness and cunning were only exceeded by his need for more power, it was as if even ruling the world would never be enough. Sephiroth had challenged almost every thing the Strife's had done, and it was even found that he organized street crime, but of course, money can go a long way in court, and he was never found guilty.
Cloud was nearing his emotional limit, he could not stand have her leave him, Aeris was his comfort, the pillar for which he lived this life to making others lives better. Without her…
"Aeris, don't leave me."
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"Hey, bro, come look at this." Axel yelled into the next room.
Leon leaned into the doorway," What is it now?"
"So, after connecting the ticket purchase data, I picked out which passport he was using up till pretty recently. I've followed his trail throughout the past couple of years, it's amazing where he goes, Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and there is no pattern to his movements, it's as if he's just sightseeing."
"Any phone calls or E-mails?"
"No, but there are records of letters being received here in the city from all of the corresponding places the prince was at the time."
"So that means he has a correspondent here in the city."
"But they weren't addressed to a specific area, in fact they were addressed to the public mailroom for a bar franchise. So it is personally delivered to individual people."
Leon pondered the next move. It was like a game of chess, except the opponent had already made his moves, now how was he going to counter? "Axel, see if the public mail room had a camera in it, most mailrooms have it regulation nowadays to have them to make sure no mail is tampered with. From there we will match the time of the letters getting received to the video footage, we might be able to find a common person."
Leon held up a picture photograph of Sora as a child, and stuck it to the computer monitor next to Axel. "It's like a game of hide and go seek." Leon walked out of the room, leaving Axel alone in the office again.
"Well could you at least buy me a cup of coffee! I hate playing hide and seek." Axel yelled over his shoulder.
No response.
"Dammit, this sucks."
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Sora and Kairi walked onto the subway train, only to find it crowded to the point where people almost couldn't fit in the cars.
'Even better', Kairi thought sarcastically, 'I get to get stuffed onto a overfilled subway car, great.' Kairi lodged herself into the car right beside Sora. Kairi had noticed that he had been very quite this whole time, not like his normal obnoxiously happy self. Glancing at him, she quietly asked him.
"Sora, are you all right?"
Sora only continued to stare off into the window. 'This is too dangerous, if someone there recognizes me, I'll be in a lot of trouble, not to mention it would get Miss Kairi involved.'
Suddenly a hand smacked the side of his head. "Hey stupid! Are you even conscious?" Sora then realized Kairi had been asking him a question for quite some time now.
"Huh? Oh, yeah, I'm fine, just a little…nervous."
Kairi gave him a questioning look, "Nervous? About what?"
Sora stared at her, he knew he could not tell her his secret, but the pain of being alone was eating at his heart every day that passed.
"It's nothing really."
Kairi knew there was no way to press the subject and surrendered to a silent train ride.
Kairi began to wonder about him, 'What's this feeling, I want to know what makes him so sad, but he's not going to open up to me." She realized what she had said, 'Hah, as if he's open up to a person like me, I suppose I AM a little to harsh on him, maybe that's why he always looks at me that way with his eyes, those two…bright…blue…beautiful eyes. WAIT! No, I did not just think that!'
She smacked her head with her hand, which grasped Sora's attention.
"Miss Kairi are you okay?"
Kairi realized she had actually smacked herself and blushed at the realization of how close Sora's face was on this crowded train car.
"Um, yes, I'm fine, I just thought I saw a fly…on my head." 'Smart one Kairi."
"A fly…?"
"Yeah." She looked away from him to try and hide her redness. After a few minutes of silence she spoke to him without looking at him directly. "You know Sora, I really am grateful for your help, thanks for getting me some time with Riku."
Sora's mouth dropped, had she just given him a nice comment? His face softened and he gave her a small smile.
"No problem…"
The train suddenly jerked and any one who hadn't been grasping a train handle was thrown off balance.
This included Sora and Kairi.
Faces a centimeter apart, both didn't move, not to mention couldn't move, from their awkward position.
Sora on the bottom, arms around Kairi's waist. And Kairi on top, straddling him like a bull rider holding on for dear life to a bull.
The rest of the passengers stared awkwardly, Sora looked around turning beat red at this public display they were giving. He saw and old man curl his lips in a perverted smile.
'Oh now that's just gross' He thought. "Uh, miss Kairi, I think we should get off of each other.
"THIRD STOP JENOVA MANSION SQUARE" chimed the train intercom.
Kairi's red face went away immediately. "Ah it's our stop!" She grabbed his collar and pulled him off the train by his hand.
When she got to the open day in the square, after going through the rest of the station, Kairi was stopped by Sora.
"Um…Miss Kairi." He said sheepishly, his cheeks turning bright red.
"What?"
Sora pointed to their conjoined hands.
"Gah!" She let go of his hand, had she been holding it the entire way? "I'm sorry Sora, I didn't mean to…"
"No, it's fine, let's get you to that interview before it's too late."
"Okay." She agreed as they both headed towards the gigantic mansion.
The rest of the day had gone very smoothly, Kairi was sitting in a room with Riku, interviewing him on his thoughts about Aeris, as Sora stood outside of the room with the door cracked open so he could manage to see them.
"And as far as we are concerned politically…" Riku continued to speak to Kairi as she jotted down notes and nodded her head. Sora had talked to Riku before hand, and made sure that nothing would be said concerning himself.
'I should not be here right now, Miss Kairi means a lot to me, but the risk I'm taking is too great.'
He then peeked in through the crack of the door.
'Wow, Kairi really does look beautiful when she's focused like that, I can't believe someone like her wouldn't be famous or anything. I bet she could be a famous model.'
Realizing his thoughts, he turned his head downwards, to face away from the view of Kairi.
"Oy, what are you doing here?" Said a voice coming down the hall.
Sora turned surprised, only to find a person he did not want to come in contact with. Especially now.
It was Kadaj. He wore a suit of leather, which looked like it was from a biker convention, a sword draped behind him. He strutted over to Sora and awaited an answer. Sora, standing there in a partially unbuttoned shirt and pants, slowly came up with his excuse.
"I'm here with a journalist for THE OATHKEEPER. We're interviewing Riku."
Kadaj looked at him as if he were speaking a different language. Obviously he did not recognize Sora, but that was probably because they had never come into much contact before.
Then his face twisted into one of anger. "Are you here to write bad stuff about brother?" He drew his sword and pointed it at Sora. "I'll kill you!"
'Goddamit, I should of seen this coming' Sora cursed himself. Kadaj was not the smartest of people, but he thought like a child, and above all, he treasured Riku and his father. 'I can't get in a fight with him or I might get found out.'
"Yeaaaaaa!" Kadaj charged at Sora.
A flash of white. Kadaj did not expect it to be over so quick, as he lay on the floor, his own sword being pointed at him, he stared into the face of his own brother.
"Brother…why?" Standing above him was his own brother Riku.
"Kadaj, we do not harm guests. Please apologize to them."
Kairi then came through the door that Riku had so swiftly flown through in a flash.
"What's going on?" She surveyed the scene with worried eyes. "Sora are you okay?"
Silence.
Sora cursed inside his mind. 'She's done it.'
Kadaj, looked at the brown-headed figure, with shocked eyes, and within seconds turned to bloodlust.
"Sora is it?" he gave a malicious smile. "I shall be very pleased if we meet again sometime." Kadaj, stood up and brushed off the dirt from his shoulder, then taking his sword from Riku. "Sorry, for causing the trouble." He turned and left with devilish eyes and a toothy smile.
The three watched as he walked away. Sora and Riku knew that Kadaj had suspected and would soon make his move.
"Sora, Kairi, forgive me but I have other matters to attend to." He looked at Sora and gave him a look to get out of the mansion as fast as possible.
"Yes, thank you for letting us come." The hidden words they were speaking were completely oblivious to Kairi.
"But wait, I'm not done."
"No Miss Kairi, it's getting late we should be going." He grabbed her arm and pulled her away. Kairi, who had never seen this powerful side of Sora, could not help but be dragged along, confused.
"But…" was all she could speak.
He burst through the door of the mansion, making his way past the train station, he didn't have time to wait for a train, they had to get as far away from there as possible as quickly as possible.
"Sora just what is going on here?" Kairi yelled as the pushed past person by person.
They neared a coffee shop and as Sora was about to pass it…
WHAM
The door of the shop opened and Kairi and Sora fell to the ground.
"Oh God, I'm so sorry, I didn't see you there." The tall, brown-headed man picked up his spilt cup and threw it in the trash. "Well, Axel's gonna be pissed."
Sora and Kairi, still a little dazed, rose to their feet. "Miss Kairi are you alright?" Sora diverted his yell at the clumsy idiot who…
That's when it happened…
Squall Leonheart, eyes wide open, stared into the face of…
"Sora Strife?" He spoke.
This caught Sora's attention. Leon quickly drew out a picture of Sora as a child and looked down at it, there was no mistaking it, although he was older, it was definitly him. Leon drew out his gun and when he looked back up to see his new find, he was gone.
"What the…" He looked around and saw a brown and an auburn couple pushing through the crowd. "Hey you come back here!"
The chase ensued.
(A/N Well, im making what seems to be futile attempts at adding romance to the story, but anyways, I know some things may seem confusing, especially how sora and riku know each other, but don't worry, all will be revealed in chapter six in OPAP. Later!)