It was all his fault. Our parents loved us. They cared about us. Those were Kairi's only thoughts for the past day.
"Kairi." Aqua called. "Two people and Roxas are here to see you." He said as the door closed behind her.
She felt two hands on her shoulders.
"Kairi." A soft feminine voice mewed. Wait, she knew that voice. "Please look at us."
She looked up slightly. It was her parents, Cloud and Tifa.
"Kairi, you know we're really worried about you." Cloud chided. Roxas rolled his eyes from the corner of the room.
"Mom! Dad!" she cried as he got them in a near choke hold. "I missed you so much!"
"Come on Roxas," Cloud started. "Join the family hug."
"I left the family for a reason." He spat, and left.
"I'm so glad you're okay!" she cried.
"Please Kairi, why?"
"Why what?" she didn't remember anything.
"Why did you get so desperate and try to…"
"I-I don't know. I couldn't take the stress anymore. All of my relationships were falling apart and my friends were tearing me between both of their sides, and then they got in a fight, and…"
"Please Kai, please get better. We miss you."
"I miss you too."
"We…we have to go now. We'll come visit you whenever we can. Please try and do better while we're gone."
"B-but you just got here!"
"We know, but…"
"So your work is more important than your own daughter?!" she yelled, very frustrated. "Fine, I get it! Go rot in hell!"
They both let go. The door opened. "Come here." Roxas ordered the parents. Then the door closed.
Roxas pushed his dad into a wall. "How could you do that?!" he yelled. "I called you to make her feel better, not to let her down again!"
"We know."
"Could you please just stop thinking of yourselves for once, and think about your daughter?!"
"Son, you don't understand."
"Don't call me that old man. What you don't understand is that she won't get better unless we give her some support instead of just moving on and visiting her every now and again. She needed you guys. We needed you guys, but you were never there! You always let us down, and I'm not letting you do that to her anymore! Not now, not ever again! Do you hear me?!"
"Yes we hear you." Tifa answered. "We're sorry. We were horrible parents. We always wished that you would forgive us. But you and she ran away. You didn't call, or leave a note, or anything. Then we never had the chance to make it up to you."
"Well, then go in there, and make it up to her!" he yelled as he dropped Cloud.
He pushed both of them in there.
Kairi never wanted to see them again. Roxas was right. They don't love us. They never did. They only cared about themselves. Those were her only thoughts.
"Kairi…"
"Go away!"
"Kai, we're sorry, for everything."
"You're only saying that because Roxas made you say it."
"No, we mean it, honey." Tifa argued. "He's right, we were never there for you guys when you needed us, and we wish we could make it up to you. We wanted to live as one big happy family, but our jobs wouldn't let us."
"You're only making excuses."
"You're right." Cloud replied. "We are, but it's the truth. Can you forgive us?"
"Maybe."
They smiled. "Good. But, we really do have to leave you now. And we promise we'll try to be there from now on, okay?"
"Okay."
"Goodbye sweetheart. We love you."
"Love you too."
Then they left her.
Roxas was still angry when they came out. "There, was that so hard?"
"It felt nice. We'll drop by to see you and Kairi whenever we can."
"Don't come to my house. I don't want you anywhere near there."
"Okay, we'll trust you to take care of our little girl. But you can't stop us from coming to see her."
"Fine, but don't expect to be welcomed."
As they left each other, he thought about what could possibly help Kairi even more. Then he remembered the fights between her friends. He found her phone, again, and called their numbers.
Riku arrived first. He was always more responsible. Then Sora came.
"Wait, what is he doing here!" they both yelled as they glared at each other.
"Calm down. We need to talk and you two need to make up."
Sora smirked. "Not until he loosens up."
"Look who's talking." Roxas replied. "Hey, why can't you two just grow up?"
"Riku is too demanding!"
"Sora is too lazy and obnoxious."
"Sora, you just demanded for Riku to loosen up, and Riku, you're obnoxious enough to reply to Sora's insult."
"…"
"…"
"Come on, from what Kairi told me about you two, you guys used to be best friends."
"That was before Riku stopped hanging out with us."
"Hey, believe it or not, I have tests that I need to study for, unlike you who just gets horrible grades."
"Shut up, both of you! I need you to settle your differences because part of the reason Kairi is suicidal is because of you two fighting!"
They both turned to Roxas. "Kai's suicidal…?" Sora whispered.
"We didn't know."
"Yes, she said you two were making her pick sides, and she couldn't handle that and her other relationships falling apart. So kiss up, make up, and start being friends again so you can go and encourage her to get better."
They looked at each other. Sora laughed nervously. "I guess our fighting was kind of stupid."
"Yeah, I guess. So…friends?"
"Yeah."
The next day, they all went to the rehabilitation center to see her.
"Hey Aqua, is Kairi available?"
"Yeah, you know where to go."
They went to that rom, and Kairi was on her bed sleeping. Roxas went and shook her lightly. "Kai, wake up."
"Huh?"
"You have more visitors."
She groggily lifted her head and opened her eyes. "Sora? Riku?"
"Hi Kairi."
"Are you guys still fighting?"
"Nah, Roxas helped us get over it."
"That's good." She whispered as she put her head down.
Sora and Riku both came over. "Are you getting better?"
"I'm not sick."
"You fooled me with all this white." Sora commented.
"Look Kai, we're sorry for fighting and everything."
"And for making you pick sides, and stuff."
"Thanks guys." She replied tiredly. "What time is it?"
Sora checked his phone. "Um, about 4:00."
"When can I go home?"
"You can go home when I say you can." Someone said from the doorway. They all turned and saw it was Terra. "I see you took my advice Kairi."
"Mm-hm."
"Well, that's good. If this keeps up, and all that, you should be out by the end of the month. We just need to see that you're actually improving instead of just putting on an act."
"I'm not." She replied seriously. "I never was."
"I know, but the superiors can't take things lightly. I swear, they're like our government, in fact, I think they're worse."
"I think you're right."
"Well, I'll leave you guys to be alone." Terra said as he left.
oxx Kingdom Hearts xxo
"Hey Kairi, guess what?" Terra asked excitedly.
"What?" she replied.
"It's time."
"It is? For real?"
"Yes. I'm sorry about all the delays, but I finally got the papers and stuff signed. Let's go."
"Yes sir!" she hopped from her bed.
They walked outside, and she was greeted cheerfully by her friends and family.
"Kairi!" Sora yelped happily as he tackled her like a dog. "Me and Riku missed you so much!"
"We really did, Kai."
"Thanks guys. Mom, Dad?"
"Yes?"
"Thank you."
"You're welcome. Just to let you know, we'll be staying around her from now on, so if you need help, uh, depending on what it is, call your mother."
"Okay, I'll keep that in mind."
Eventually Sora, got off of her, and she walked up to Roxas. They shared no words, just a simple mouthing of thank you, and they hugged.
Cloud put his hands on Kairi's shoulders. "Hey, how about we all have dinner at our place in celebration?" he offered.
"Yeah!" Sora and Riku agreed quickly, always thinking with their stomachs.
"Uh, I'd rather not." Roxas replied semi-politely.
"Hehe, oh no you don't. You're coming over for dinner whether you like it or not!" Kairi ordered as she started pushing him to their house to get ready. There, heh, I guess Roxas needs help on him family issues too.