I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way

Disclaimer: Hard as I may try, I own nothing from kingdom hearts. Although I have similar hair to cloud? :)

Rating: Hmm, if you have been to high school, this won't bother you.

Chapter Summary: Soooo, the first proper day has now ended up as two separate chapters, cus im cool xD

a/n Okay, so I have started writing this two days after my last upload, it probably take me ages, I'm so easily distracted, I should so be doing Spanish revision, my gcse exam is like soooo soon. Oh well.

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Simplify, Your Life

"Squall Leonhart, Kairi Harada, please come to the principles office." The school speakers echoed a kind voice through the halls, corridors and classrooms.

Riku's head snapped upwards, eyes red and puffy, he stared at Yuffie, eyes wide in horror. "What the hell has she done."

"I wouldn't worry about her, worry for Leon if anyone." She smiled at him weekly. Riku laughed bitterly.

Life is going to be hell for a while.

"If you want, we can go find the others, find out what happened?"

"No. There's no point. I'm going home." Riku got up.

"If you go, the teachers are going to find out that this whole incident revolves around you." A voice spoke up. Not Yuffie's but Cloud, the voice of reason, had stepped in, followed rather sheepishly by Sora and Roxas.

"So I'm supposed to let Kairi take the rap for me?" Riku laughed again bitterly.

"She wouldn't thank you for stepping in now, if you do all of this was for nothing." Roxas spoke this time, staring not at Riku but a spot on the floor.

"What the fuck do you know? You don't even know me." Riku stared at Roxas, his stunning teal eyes quivering with irritation. Roxas stared blankly, turned on his heal and left the room just as the bell signalling final period rang.

"I'll, um catch you guys later." Sora ran after his twin, quickly loosing him in the crowds of people.

"You're not gonna make friends that way, and you're going to need all you can get." Cloud stated harshly with a hard facial expression.

Riku looked up, bleary aqua eyes focusing hazily on the older blonde boy. Clouds expression softened.

"It'll be aright Riku." Yuffie piped up from the corner, a weak smile flitted across her face.

"You realise why I have called you both here?" The blonde woman in front of them was on edge, extraordinarily tense, clearly fighting the compulsion to shout.

Larxene Nymph was sitting before them her pale blue eyes narrowed in rage. A sweet smile was forced onto her face, the combination of the two was.. interesting to say the least.

Both Kairi and Leon looked at her blankly.

"Well you see, Leon here" her eye twitched. "appears to have been hit in the face. And people say they saw you, Kairi" Here eye twitched again "punch him around the face." her jaw was so tightly shut it was a wonder she was able to say anything at all. "Is this true Leon?"

Kairi smirked inwardly, there was no way he could tell her without having to say what he was doing in the first place.

Leon was struggling, get Kairi in the shit, or say nothing and get no detention.

"I HAVN'T GOT ALL DAY!" you could almost hear the snap in the air as her temper broke. "WHY MUST YOU ALL TAKE SO FUC...." She seamed to realise what she was saying as she shakily sank back into her seat, her forced sweet smile returned.

"Its fine Leon, you can tell me." her voice was way to sweet.

"Ugh no, I just walked into the door."

Kairi snorted to her self.

That's the best he could do? That was shit.

"Fine, whatever, just get out of my office, I don't want to hear anything more of this." Her voice now matched her cold icy blue eyes. "I expect not to be seeing either of you in this room."

Kairi had known it was going to be fine.

She left the office with Leon, and quickly sped up, pulling away from him.

"Kairi." Leon called after her, it wasn't angry, not even annoyed, he merely said her name out loud.

She turned on the spot, didn't bother to answer, she stared at him coolly.

"We're even now." He said, and he turned and walked off in the opposite direction.

She just laughed bitterly in reply, cursing her lack of responses. She ambled lazily to her class, Kairi was in no hurry for geography, she wasn't even sure why she took it as an option, she couldn't read maps for shit and her worldly knowledge stretched from twilight town to destiny islands. Besides, there was only 15 minutes left.

Riku had injured a whole 55 minutes of geography by the time Kairi had turned up. Fortunately Zexion Schemer was not a man to be crossed in the classroom, so all Riku had really had to listen to was the dull droning voice of Mr Schemer and a few murmurs and whispers and general dirty looks it his direction.

Kairi took her seat next to him, she smiled weekly, after all it was kinda her fault this had got out. A sinking feeling of guilt and realisation rested in the pit of her stomach and began to kick violently. A couple of minutes later, the bell signifying the end of the day rang out, Riku hung behind, asking Zexion various questions about stuff he really didn't care about. God bless his ability to procrastinate. Once Riku deemed it safe to leave he decided to head out the school gates. Riku's only safe haven now was home.

He lived in a small apartment with Kairi and his older brother Yazoo. Yazoo of course, being the one who paid the rent, thus the reason why they only had a small stereo system for entertainment and why they lived on a basic diet of ramen and Pepsi.

Yazoo had come out in a very public way, (involving mostly banners, large amount of pink glitter, and a very large fight in which Yazoo was the victor.) the story had become some what of a legend, and although Yazoo was severely outed, although he had kept his main group of friends.

Riku an Kairi headed out of the school gates. Shit. Leon was waiting for them with Seifer. Seifer had dull blonde hair, wore a small beanie hat, a long white sleeveless coat and baggy jeans.

"well, that went well, I didn't even have to do anything, Kairi did it for me." He said with a smirk.

Seifer laughed in the background

"I'm well aware of what happened Leon, and I don't blame Kairi. I don't even care what you or anyone else has to say about me."

"Fucking liar, we all saw you hide"

"Shut up the FUCK UP Leon." Kairi moved forward.

Riku's fists were shaking but he just looked away to the floor, his long silver-white bangs falling across his eyes.

"Problem?" In a swift movement, and a flash of silver a body created a wall between the two. He turned round, and his deep emerald green eyes winked at Riku. He had light silver hair, that hung in bangs that fell across the middle of his pretty, almost feminine face. His hair was long, much longer than Riku's, falling down to his lower back, from the front it reached just past his chest. He wore black tight leather trousers, a black vest with black lacy sleeves. He kept his voice, level, calm and almost a little friendly.

"Screw off Yazoo, you're just like him. Guess Kairi's not a slag after all, she lives with two GAY men." Seifer waved his hand at him arrogantly.

Yazoo shot forward, his face almost touching Seifer's, a dark smile on his face.

"Got a problem." There wasn't a hint of amusement in his voice, it wasn't a question.

"Pfft. Like either of us give a shit what you think, fuck off Yazoo." Leon stated calmly. Yazoo's eyes narrowed, two small green glimpses of emeralds stared out from behind the bangs of a silver fringe. In a quick movement, another flash of silver starlight hair, and a small yelp from Seifer and a grunt from Leon, Seifer sat on the ground his face dropped in shock, whilst Leon was crouched down, holding his chest.

If Riku had some strange power to stop time, (which he didn't but still, that would be cool.) He'd of seen Yazoo Knee Seifer in the stomach, forcing him back, at the same time he had punch Leon in the pressure point across his chest.

"Now, be good boys from now on." Yazoo smirked as he walked away with Kairi and Riku leaving behind a dumbfounded Seifer and a moderately annoyed Leon.

"That's probably the worst way you possibly could of came out Ku. I swear, if I had been in that room I'd beat the shit outta him, but judging by the growing bruise on his face I'd say Kai did a good job in my absence."

Kairi giggled "Where were you at lunch anyway?"

"Wellllll I had a science detention, because the table 'spontaneously combusted' and they blamed me." He drew out his words with a smirk. "Hey Ku..?"

Riku looked up, and forced a bright smiled.

"You're shit." Yazoo looked at his younger brother with a frown. "You can't lie to me, I've known you the full 16 years of you're life."

"Riku.. I'm so sorry, this is my fault." Kairi tilted her head towards the ground, looking up with ocean blue eyes through her deep red bangs.

"Kai, its not you're fault, Its Leon's. Don't worry about it." He offered her a genuine smile, and Kairi knew she was forgiven, but the guilt monster was still kicking the shit out of her insides.

"OH MY GOD!" Yazoo shouted in mock irritation "stop being moody, angsty brooding teenagers!" He stared at Kairi's down trodden, guilty face and Riku's saddened self pity. "LETS ORDER PIZZA!"

"Ehem, lack of money?" Kairi shot Yazoo a look she saved for insane people.

"TomAYto TomARto."

"That doesn't even make sense. Why are you saying that like a spazz?"

"YOU don't even make sense! Why are YOU a spazz?" Yazoo was shouting in a mock childish voice.

A few small spots of rain hit Riku's nose. "Rain."

"No shit Sherlock, nothing gets past you man." Yazoo kept his voice totally deadpan, although a slight smirk had crept across his face.

"My hair!" Kairi wailed and made a sprint in the direction of the apartment.

"Race you?" Riku smirked at his older brother.

"Pffft, a race would mean you would have to be a challenge to me." They both set of at a sprint as the rain began to fall heavier and heavier.

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Sora was walking home lazily with his twin, slowly being drenched by the torrential downpour, that was in fact, he was sure, slowly drowning him and soon he would surely run out of things to be soaked.

"What shall we have for dinner tonight?" Sora looked up at his brother, and couldn't help but feel slightly amused at how his perfectly constructed hairstyle had been destroyed by the rain.

"..."

"Rox?"

"I don't think we should hang around with that Riku kid."

"What? Why? They're all really nice and.."

"Riku's self absorbed right now, and I don't blame him, but if we hang around with him life's gonna be a lot more complicated, he's on the verge of being outed, and if he goes down, the rest of his group could follow."

"Rox, thats really self absorbed." Sora's had tensed up, Roxas knew he'd pissed Sora off, but he also knew that he was right. Sora could not believe he was even bringing it up now. What was the point?

"Being the new kids is hard enough, I don't wanna see you get outed and I dont wanna be either!"

"Roxas, they tried to be our friends." A rare angry look was now plastered across Sora's face.

What the fuck. Was Roxas serious?

"You know what Roxas, just forget it."

"Sora..." Roxas hadn't meant to sound so harsh, but it was true.

"No whatever, I'm going to bed."

"Its like 4:00."

"I don't care." Sora stormed off to his room, a soft thud confirmed that Sora had indeed gone to his room, although Roxas doubted he would sleep. After a few minutes of general nothingness, Roxas decided he'd go talk to Sora in a few hours, when he cooled off.

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a/n Righties, I think we shall leave it there for now. Not a very happy chapter really. Hmm, good times a coming I spose :D

I'm struggling to get this done, my life changing exams are soon, still not done that Spanish revision, the test is next Thursday :O

chapter title is a lyric, and belongs to Marina and the Diamonds.