Me: Hi! Here's chapter 6~ Enjoy~

Edited - 5/9/2024

Beta'd by IHaveNoIdea8.

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Kairi's POV

I snapped my eyes open, sitting up fast and holding my breath, looking around to see I was still at the Inn with Sync letting me know I was safe...kind of, so I took a sigh of relief. I put my legs out of the covers to touch the cold floor making me flinch. I put my shoes on and saw that Sync was not in his bed, so he must have woken up before me. I stepped out of the Inn covering my eyes when the sun hit my face. I was used to the bright sun so I looked around for Sync but I couldn't find him.

'Where is he?' I was about to walk around when I saw Luke and the others walking to the Emperor's palace. 'Do I want to go with them? Part of me wants to go with them but...what about Sync?' I was about to turn around to go back to the Inn when I heard Luke's voice calling my name.

I turned around to be hugged by Luke. I blinked, surprised that he hugged me out of the blew. He stepped back and put his hand behind his head sheepishly.

"Sorry Kairi, I didn't mean to hug you all of a sudden, but when you just disappeared everyone was worried, especially Alicia."

Concern for the little girl hit me. "I-Is she okay?" Luke smiled nodded his head and told me they got to the others just in time, I beamed at him, "That's wonderful news, Luke! I'm so proud of you; I knew you could save those people." Luke's face turned red by the praise I gave him, I giggled at his red face which was even redder than his hair which was so cute.

"Luke we have more important matters to attend to than seeing you flirting away." Jade walked forward pushing up his glasses. I sent a glare at Jade at his remark, he's still a jerk I see.

"Oh yeah... Why don't you join us Kairi? We could use your help." right when he said that I felt regret. I felt like I betrayed their trust especially Luke's.

I forced a smile to hide the sadness I felt.

"I shouldn't go this time Luke... I'm so sorry!" I ran back inside the Inn to the room Sync rented for us.

I sat down on the edge of my bed, my feet touching the floor. My hands were clasped together resting on my lap, and my head hung in shame. I have betrayed Luke and the others; I want to be by Sync's side, but why? The more I tried to think about why I wanted to be beside Sync at all times I got more confused! I stood and walked over to the full-body mirror looking at my reflection.

I clenched my fists at my sides, glaring at my reflection with hot tears rolling down my face. I punched the mirror, breaking it into pieces that fell to the floor. I fell to my knees ignoring the glass scattered on the floor that could cut my legs. I ignored the pain in the hand I had used to punch the mirror; I wrapped my arms around my waist, crying out.

I didn't notice the door open; I didn't even notice someone cursing. I felt someone pulling me away from the glass on the floor. I thrashed around, making it difficult for whoever was pulling me away.

"Will you stop it?"

It was Sync? I stopped thrashing when he let me go and turned around to face him, biting my lip. I was nervous, especially because he didn't seem happy. Even with his mask hiding his face I could just feel his anger and annoyance.

"What the hell did you do? Do you really love to annoy me or something? I'm more pissed off at you than anything!" he was holding tightly to my arms so I couldn't move anywhere.

"Let me go! It's all your fault!" I was glaring at him, forcing the tears to stop falling. I tried to push him away from me, but Sync had a good grip on my arms.

"Will you stop pushing me away?! How is it my fault? On second thought, I don't care. Don't make me knock you out." He threatened me with knocking me out...again.

I stop thrashing around breathing heavily. I used a lot of energy yelling and thrashing around.

"Now are you going to tell me why the hell you broke the mirror? And why are you crying?"

He slowly let my arms go, making them fall to my side.

"Why do you care? Why do you suddenly want to know?..." I saw his hand twitch when I said that.

"I...don't know which pisses me off more, but that doesn't matter now. So are you going to tell me why you broke the mirror? It's coming from our rent here and I have to pay more, and I do not care enough to pay off a broken mirror unless I know the reason!"

I groaned, knowing I had to tell him or it was coming from my pocket. I sighed softly.

"The reason was... I didn't like my reflection so I just punched it, that's all. Now you have the reason, Sync, so leave me alone for the rest of the day." I half-lied, he didn't need to know the whole truth.

"...Why the hell would you punch your own reflection? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard."

I was angry at his words, so I just snapped, "This isn't my face! Or my voice! They aren't mine to use!" Hot tears fell down my cheeks again, "It's all hers! It doesn't belong to me...it's all hers." I covered my face, sobbing.

I felt a hand on my shoulder making me uncover my face. Through my tearful eyes, I saw Sync.

"I know how it feels."

I felt rage boiling in my veins, how dare he say that! He has no idea how it feels!

Sync's POV

When I heard Kairi say those things I was beyond shocked but confused. I put two and two together and it all made sense; she was a Replica, just like me. She was lost like I was before Van found and saved me, so I put my right hand on her shoulder. She uncovered her teary face.

"I know how it feels." I actually felt bad for her; I wanted to save her like Van saved me. It wasn't like me to feel this way, but she was going through this stage of being lost and confused. I never knew how angry she would be at my words, though.

"You couldn't possibly understand!" she shouted in rage.

I knew what I had to do to show her, I shook my head and pulled my mask off, showing her my face.

"Y-You look like...Fon Master Ion!" she gasped.

I nodded "I'm one of Fon Master Ion's Replicas. Like I said, I understand how you feel, Kairi. I was a reject thrown into the mouth of the Mt. Zaleho volcano."

Kairi's POV

Sync clenched his fists, shaking. I felt guilt for snapping at him, for thinking he couldn't understand but here he sat, with Ion's face. I reached my hand to cover his, smiling softly at him. I wanted to laugh when I saw his face was turning red but I just kept smiling at him.

"You're not a reject Sync... You're not Ion, you're Sync The Tempest!" I saw his lips twitch into a small smile, "You may be Ion's Replica, but to me you're Sync and to tell ya the truth I like you better than Ion." he raised an eyebrow at me.

"Seriously? Jeez, this is a surprise... Wait, who's your original, Kairi..?"

I bit my bottom lip nervously; I looked straight into his green eyes.

"Did you know there was another God-General?"

"Hmm, I think I heard Dist talk about it before... All I remember him saying before I blocked out his annoying voice was it was a female. Why?"

I sighed, shaking my head.

"Yes, she was called Selena the Siren. That title was given to her because every time she opens her mouth to sing she can trance anyone or anything, but then she was announced missing in action. But she wasn't missing, Sync, someone kidnapped her while her guard was down. That's all I know from before I was born." I waited to see his reaction and he looked shocked.

"Wait! So Selena the Siren is your original? Now that I think about it, when we met for the first time I felt drawn to your voice when you were singing."

"Yeah, that's what happens every time I sing; singing is the power I got from my original. I don't like it though... Every time I hear my voice when I sing I get so confused and angry. But until yesterday I hardly got sad. Yesterday I sang and I actually felt sad for the very first time after singing, but I was getting more confused when I met you Sync...something about you interested me, so I knew I would meet you no matter where I went."

"So you knew I was going to find you? That's... a little freaky. Anyway, let me wrap up your hand. May I?" right when he said that my mouth opened out of surprise but I gave him my wounded hand for him to wrap up.

My cheeks flared up when he was holding my hand to wrap it up, he was surprisingly gentle. When he was done, he helped me pick up all the mirror pieces and put them in the trash. I noticed Sync didn't put his mask back on, but I knew he'd put it back on tomorrow.

I went to my bed, snuggling into my covers. I whispered 'Good night' to Sync, who said it back, and then I fell asleep not knowing what the next day held for me.