Kingdom Hearts Fan Fiction ❯ Untitled Notepad ❯ Scared of the Future ( Chapter 3 )

Ch.3: Scared of the future

 

 

-Ahh, the never-ending author's notes. When will they end? Never. Never I tell you, muah ha ha! *Sigh* whatever. Look, read, review, lick, like, whatever. I don't care. I got an account on Myspace...my URL is myspace.com/anthylove.

Oh yeah, the first draft of this was started my sophomore year (05) and its now 07. I work slow, as you see. Sorry.

 

 

It was a good idea. The girl needed to get a life anyway. Right? It's wasn't like she was asking her to go to a rave and have an orgy or anything...but for some reason it felt wrong. No, not wrong...corrupted. There we go, corrupted.

But a party was a party, right?

And there weren't going to be any drugs or anything at this party, so she didn't need to be feeling like scum, luring innocent young girls into evil plots.

`Damn. Hmmm.... the party ends at ten, after all, and that wasn't super late or anything. No reason to be conscious, right? Right? Damn.'

 

These were Yuffie's thoughts as she stared down at the flyer for Irvine's party. She really, really wasn't looking forward to this.

He had asked her to invite Kairi. The Kairi. Mrs. I don't speak to anyone or even glance at other people because I'm too shy, Kairi. Ugh.

"Good clean fun, that's all!" was all he said when she asked if there was going to be anything...Irvine-ish there. It wasn't the fact that she had to ask someone, usually she'd go up and down the halls asking people to come, or stuffing fliers in their lockers vindictively. It wasn't that at all. It was the fact that she had to ask Kairi. Kairi-Kairi goody two-shoes.

Getting her to get out would be almost as hard as getting Rinoa to shut up. Harder, maybe.

 

Yuffie took a deep breath and frowned. It wasn't only Irvine who was breathing down her neck about this load of crap. After hearing Irvine describe her (in painstaking, horribly exaggerated detail), Rinoa said she wanted to meet this Kairi girl also. And if Yuffie didn't deliver, Rinoa would throw a fit.

And that was something Yuffie would like to avoid in the near future.

Sure, Rinoa was a little (lot) childish for her age, but the fits, oh the fits.... It was like watching Cheers with the sound all the way up.

She had asked Sora and Riku, and they said Kairi always went to the computer room in the mornings and sometimes after school.

To her, this screamed "HELP! I AM IN DESPERATE NEED OF A SOCIAL LIFE!" but who was she to judge? Even though she did it on an almost nightly basis on chat rooms to people she was never in her lifetime going to meet….

 

Yuffie headed deep into the dorky bowels of the school known as the "Scholar Hallway", where nerds are king and most people in the school avoid like the plague. It contained all things dork, such as the computer room, spelling bee comp., and other things she would dare not set foot near. But if not this, what were friends for?

'Irvine owes me big for this...' she thought as she entered the room (using the hem of her tank top to open the doorknob). `I'm gonna make him buy me those Indigo Girls CDs I saw the other day on Amazon' she thought maliciously.

"And that's...oh hi, Yuffie..."

It was Ellone, Rinoa-less for the first time in weeks.

And Kairi.

'Where's everyone else?' she thought, scanning the room.

No one else was there. `Am I interrupting something?' she thought nervously, catching the silence as soon as she walked into the room. `Oh great. Work away, imagination. Kairi's not like that. Stop it. Oh great, what did I come in here for?'

 

"Can I help you with something? It's not Rinoa, is it?" Ellone said, leaning back in her chair, tapping the chalkboard with the headrest. It was funny, really, how small the computer room was. Poor dorks got not funding at all.

'Poor, poor Ellone' Yuffie thought.

Ellone and Rinoa had met while applying for jobs at the high school, from what she'd heard.

Needless to say, Ellone got the job and Rinoa didn't. Not really a surprise. Yuffie had the feeling Rinoa probably would've gotten the job if she was wearing something that could've been described as “appropriate”.

But when Ellone let it slip that she was new in town, Rinoa slipped into overdrive mode.

 

"No, it's not. I just wanted to talk to her,” she said pointing a well-manicured finger at a wide-eyed Kairi, who had the typical “Why me?” look on her face. Aw, she was embarrassed. It was cute, really, how easy it was to get her flustered.

Ellone looked like she wanted to say something else to Kairi, but shot a glance at Yuffie and shut her mouth immediately, smiling poignantly.

"See you later, Kairi."

"N-no, I'll be back-"

"Oh, no you won't!” Yuffie said with exaggerated enthusiasm, grinning as the other girl's face glowed scarlet. She was thinking about making it into a game of some sort-“How many times can you make Kairi blush?” or something like that. Fifty points for doing something like just touching her. A hundred plus points for saying something that makes her blush. `I should tell Irvine about this game….'

"What is it?" Kairi asked, wallowing in more unnecessary self-pity. That look she had on her face was only making things worse. Was she always so sickeningly innocent? Or did she just do it around Yuffie for laughs and giggles?

"Okay it's like this...” Yuffie stated, trying to find the words.

"One of my friends, you see, he, uh, likes you. And, he wanted to know if you would go to a little get-together of his so you two could get to know each other a little better."

There, she said it. It wasn't too bad, even if she did have to go out of her way to not mention the tiny fact that Irvine was a complete and utter idiot. But, then again, Kairi did hang out with Sora and Riku. Maybe idiots were her type.

 

Kairi blinked, the “I'm so trusting and naïve” look painted all over her face like a little china doll. Yuffie felt like killing herself a little.

`Please say yes, please say yes...'

"Yeah. I'll come. I just need some kind of excuse to tell my parents."

....Huh?

"Eh?" Yuffie asked, wearing Kairi's usual blank stare. Did she just say yes? Of all things? It was the apocalypse.

"Sure" Kairi repeated, wearing something of a grin, as if she knew how much torture Yuffie was going through.

"Why not? I have nothing else planned...but when does it end and all?"

Yuffie continued to wear the Kairi Face. Why'd she say yes? That's what she wanted to hear and all, but...

 

"It...uh...it begins at six and ends at ten...only a few people will be there. Like Zell! You remember him, right? He was the guy who gave you a hard time at the park the other day-uh. Um, I mean…uh.”

Wrong thing to say; the look on Kairi's face wasn't a good one.

`Crap!' Yuffie thought, kicking herself for being such an idiot. If she had turrets syndrome then maybe that would be an excuse, but unfortunately ( or fortunately, however you see the situation) she didn't, so it was just pure foolishness on her part. Time for some theatrics. Maybe if she intentionally made a fool of herself it would embarrass Kairi so much she had to say yes…again.

"Please!" Yuffie cried, grabbing Kairi's hand, wailing dramatically, inciting the stares of the sparse hallway dwellers. The look on the other girls' face was priceless. `That's about two hundred points if I do say so myself.'

"Please! I'll get on my hands and knees and beg, if that's what it takes! Irvine really likes you, and a lot of other people are kinda depending on you coming tonight..."

'Like Rinoa not throwing a fit', Inner Yuffie thought.

A happy Rinoa meant a Rinoa that wasn't being whiny, and everyone liked that.

 

"Why not" Kairi muttered, snatching her hand away as if Yuffie held a virus, her face burning scarlet. One fifty points.

"Yes!" Yuffie yelled, throwing her arms around her, just to see how much she could push the limits. This was a little too much fun; it ought to be illegal.

"Wha-I, uh, no! It's nothing! Don't think anything about it! I just want to…I mean, yes! I leave it to you!” Kairi yelped as she slipped away and out of sight.

Yuffie watched her jog/walk down the hallways, wondering just why she found her so damn amusing.

 

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What was wrong with her today?

Kairi walked quickly (a.k.a., ran like a crazy person) away from Yuffie, all flustered up like Sora around Riku. `There's no reason to be acting like this, there's no reason to be acting like this, there's no reason to be-holy crap I can't breathe!'

When Yuffie had grabbed her hand, she felt...tingly.

"Auuuugh!" she wailed as she entered (threw herself dramatically) in the bathroom.

And then when she hugged her... "No!" she yelled, shaking her head. She was straight! Totally and completely straight! So what if she'd never liked a boy or whatever. She'd never liked anyone, for crying out loud! She barely even knew Yuffie!

"I don't like her or anything!" she said too loudly, even if no one else was in the bathroom.

 

That was just...wrong. She didn't like girls.

Or guys, for that matter. She'd never "gone out" with anyone before in her life, except when she was about five and conned Sora and Riku into playing House with her...but that was a totally different thing once you turned ten years old.

“I'm such a deviant! I've only even talked to her a few times and I'm acting like I have a crush on her! This is all her fault, turning me gay…Even though that's not possible…”

'Ugh. I think I should stop eating such sugary cereal in the morning....'

She did not like Yuffie. Nothing even close. If anything, she should be annoyed by her. She was loud, obtrusive, and…and…

`Oh crap the bell just rang.'

 

 

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Kairi was late to class for the first time in history. History class, that is, she was late almost every day what with getting thrown all over the place in the hallways. Mr. V was mad, but he was mad 24/7, so that couldn't really be helped. The problem was her head. She couldn't focus on anything. Everything Mr. V said about Traverse Town's huge stock crash reminded Kairi of Yuffie. Every time Sora tried to distract her by making dumb faces he reminded her of Yuffie. Closing her eyes she saw Yuffie's smiling face, saw her pale skin, saw her fingers tightly interlocked in Rinoa's. The lunch detention she received for not paying attention during the reading reminded her of Yuffie. `Crap…I'm totally hopeless beyond all hope…'

 

 

 

 

Yuffie rolled her eyes as Irvine yapped and yapped and yapped. Honestly, he yapped too much. It was more than a little annoying. In fact, it was so annoying it made her wonder why she was even friends with the dumbass.

"Yes...yes, she's coming, already! Shut up about it! God you're so annoying sometimes! Keep acting like that and I'll guarantee she'll avoid you!" Yuffie felt like smashing the phone against the wall with the hopes that he'd feel it. Hanging up was a good option too, but whatever. He was annoying.

"Sorry, it's just that I really wanted her to come.” Irvine said, using his Whiney Voice he used to win the bimbos over. Fortunately Yuffie wasn't a bimbo so the Whiney Voice just pissed her off more than she already was.

Usually she didn't pay much mind to anything Irvine said, seeing as how he was an idiot and all, but that last statement of his hit her like a brick wall. “Irvine, who was the last girl you went out with?”

“Leblanc.”

“Ahuh. And before that?”

“Don't remember. Why?”

Now what in the world would Irvine want with Kairi? From what Yuffie knew of him, Irvine only went out with the type of girl you saw puking up in toilettes, not the kind of girl who blushed up a storm when you just touched her. “Irvine, why do you like Kairi? Do you even like her? She's not even your type, is she?”

There was a pause on the other end, then the most aggravating laugh ever. She wanted to kill the guy, really…

“Why does it matter? You're not her mother, Yuffie. Heck, you're not even her friend from what I've heard. Mind your business. Don't sigh like that I'm joking, good lord woman…so anyways, are you gonna pick her up or what? Someone took my car to get beer like an hour ago and hasn't shown back up, so I'm kinda slumped in that department. Seifer, I think. Kick his ass for me if you see him. Hello? Hello? Are you listening to me, I'm talking-”

"..."

"Yuffie, what the hell, answer me or I'll hang up-"

"Oh no! I forgot to give her directions on how to get here! Shit!"

"You idiot, Yuffie!" Irvine yelled on the other line.

"Hold on, I'll call her real quick!" Yuffie said, glad for the opportunity to hang up on him, even though she honestly didn't know Kairi's phone number or where she lived.

 

'Damn I'm so stupid...' she thought as she bounced around her room looking for a phone book. What a looser, resorting to a phone book. Did she even have a phone book lying conveniently around in her room?

"Aha!" she said, catching sight of a thick red book sticking up from out underneath her bed, conveniently far enough to be just in sight. What was a phone book doing under her bed? Okay, whatever, that didn't matter. She just needed Kairi's number. “This doesn't make me a stalker or anything. It's not like I'm going to keep the number or anything! I'm not going to…uh…oh hey…”

Just as Yuffie pulled it out to scan for Kairi's name, a thought occurred to her. She didn't know Kairi's last name.

"Dammit!" she yelled, shaking the phone book as if it were the source of her problems. What good was the total convenience of having a random phonebook in her room if she didn't know Kairi's damn last name? Christ she was out of it.

 

"Hey idiot, you have a...visitor..." Tifa said, sticking her head in Yuffie's mess of a room with the typical look of disappointment. After all fifteen years of her life Yuffie had never had a clean room, and figured her sister should've known that by then. But whatever. Irvine was going to kill her. It wasn't just Irvine, either; Yuffie was actually kind of…looking forward to seeing Kairi outside of school. As much sense as that made.

Judging by the way she had said "visitor" Rinoa had come by.

"Sure, send her in here!" Yuffie commanded as she violently shook the cursed phone book.

A few seconds later, Rinoa slithered into the room, wearing the most ridiculous "outfit" Yuffie had ever seen.

"What...are you wearing?!" she asked, looking at Rinoa's cloth stuff.

"What, we're going to a party, right? This is what you wear at parties! Unlike what you're wearing!"

Yuffie looked down at herself. She hadn't changed since school, so she was still wearing a tank top and shorts.

"Well what if I didn't feel like changing" she muttered, making a point to fold her arms and pout like a baby. Maybe Rinoa would cut it out if she got a taste of it herself.

 

"So, is that redhead coming?" Rinoa asked as she rummaged through Yuffie's room probably looking for gum.

"Um, actually, I don't know her phone number...or where she lives...."

"I figured as much!" Rinoa declared proudly, drawing her chest out more than it already was.

"So that's why she's here," she said, pulling Ellone out of nowhere.

"Ah?!" Yuffie gasped.

"Wh-where on Earth did she come from-"

"I dragged her away after school and asked (commanded) her to come!"

 

Ellone looked rather exhausted.

'Poor girl' Yuffie thought as Rinoa bothered her about something. In all honesty, Ellone sincerely looked ready to die at any moment.

"How would Ellone help us find Kairi?" Yuffie asked.

"Well, she does run the computer club, with its whole two members. She knows Kairi's phone number and address."

"Cool!" Yuffie said, happy Rinoa did something smart for a change. Kairi's number would be good to know in case she wanted to call her-in a platonic way! Yuffie already had a girlfriend; it wasn't like that. Even though Kairi was completely adorable and naïve and pliant, it wasn't like Yuffie had a crush on her. Not at all, not even a tiny one. Or a teeny one.

"Could you help us? Please?"

Ellone sighed, hanging her shoulders.

"Well, I don't know if Kairi really should be going to one of these high school parties. Plus, as an adult if I get caught helping her get here I'm pretty sure I can loose my job…”

 

"Oh, don't be a stiff" Rinoa joked, nudging the older girl with her elbow.

"You're going, aren't you? And what's with this `adult' stuff-you're only 24!"

Ellone sighed once more.

"Alright, give me the phone...and 24 is an adult, Rinoa."

"Yay!"

 

 

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Kairi bit her nails as she watched Sora run excitedly around her room. She was going to a party. She was. She hadn't even been to the mall without her parents and she was going to a real life high school party. She felt sick. She was sick…

"Calm down, you two..." Riku said as he flipped through one of Kairi's old photo albums. “Kairi just sit down and stop freaking out. Sora stop that stupid dance! You look like Demyx!”

"But it's our first high school party!" Sora declared, still continuing to use one of Kairi's stuffed Moogels as a makeshift sitar.

"Were you two even invited?" Kairi wondered aloud.

"Nope!" Riku said, smiling.

"But we can't just let you go to some party and not have us there!" Sora said, dramatically placing his hands on his hips.

"Like you'd be able to do anything if something happened...." Riku muttered, rolling his eyes.

"What?! What was that?!"

In spite of herself Kairi laughed, watching as Sora attempted to noogie the older boy (to no avail). After their semi-fight the three of them had been back to normal. Better than normal in fact-they were getting along great. They filled Kairi in on the details of their sordid affair (as Tidus called it), and she filled them in on all the nothing she'd been up to since they started to drift apart. There was one thing she hadn't mentioned though…there didn't really seem to be a right way to mention it. How would she go about explaining that every time she thought of Yuffie, a girl, her heart would race? How would she tell them that she actually looked forward to seeing her? What would they think if she told them she thought she…liked Yuffie?

 

Kairi glanced at her watch, putting that tangent off for later. She was still nervous.

The party would be starting in half an hour.

And Yuffie hadn't called yet.

"Don't worry, Kai" Riku reassured, "they'll call, trust me".

"How do you know?" she asked suspiciously.

"Well.... You know that Ellone lady? Well Yuffie's girlfriend Rinoa is dragging her along, or so she says." Riku said matter-of-factly, not bothering to mention how he knew all this when he didn't hang out with Yuffie or Mrs. Ellone at all.

'Girlfriend...' Kairi thought distantly as Sora hauled Riku off the bed and began dancing around the room with him. What would it be like to have a girlfriend? Would it be like any other friend, but deeper? Kairi and Selphie were pretty good friends, but Kairi didn't feel the same with her as she did with Yuffie. Just what exactly made her feel that way in the first place? She barely even knew the other girl…

 

“Hey Kairi?” Riku asked suddenly, coming to a halt and causing Sora to go flying cutely into her bed, “why are so wound up anyway? I thought you didn't even like Yuffie. You two friends now or what?”

“…Um? Yeah, we're getting to know each other a little better I guess.”

Good thing she wasn't Pinocchio. “Just Friends” huh? How long could she go without telling her two actual best friends?

Just as she began to ponder her thoughts, the phone rang.

"Squee!" Sora yelled.

"Will you shut up, her parents are here!" Riku said, shoving a pillow at his boyfriend.

With slight hesitation, Kairi picked up the phone, wondering to herself if a skirt and T-shirt was appropriate party wear. Oh great, now she had another thing to worry about…

"Um...hello?"

"HELLO, IS KAIRI THERE?!" someone with a very loud, cartoon-sounding voice said.

"Yes" Kairi said, already starting to feel tired. Her eardrum probably imploded.

 

"HELLO MAY I SPEAK TO-Ow!! Yuffie, that hurt! What are you trying to-?"

There was a brief pause and some scrambling sounds, and then...

"Hey, Kairi."

She recognized the voice at once, even if it was marred by rough breathing.

"Hi Yuffie" she said, watching Sora and Riku dance. She noticed the effort it took her to not smile like an idiot while she clutched the phone with an eagerness she didn't really understand.

"Hey, where do you live? I'm gonna come with Rinoa and Ellone to pick ya up."

 

Another fluttery feeling. "You know that park with the broken slide near-"

"Oh, cool! I live right on the other side of that park! Meet us there!"

Kairi was about to hang up, but then a thought occurred to her as Riku shoved Sora in the closet, yelling about volume levels.

"Wait, Yuffie! Sora and Riku-"

"They're coming, right? Figured as much. You know, Kairi, this isn't a formal party or however you're thinking about it. People don't have to be invited. Did you honestly think that?"

“…”

“See you there Kairi.”

Putting the phone back down on the receiver Kairi put her fingers to her cheeks, which must've been the same shade as her hair. Completely hopeless…

 

 

 

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Kairi Sora and Riku stared at the car in disbelief. Somewhere off in the distance, a coyote howled.

"Um...Yuffie?" Kairi asked, breaking the shocked silence.

"Is this...your car?"

Yuffie shook her head as Rinoa began dancing in circles around Ellone. "It's Rinoa's."

"Well, it's, uh...great!" Riku said, shooting Kairi a laughing glance.

"Great?" Sora asked. "Great? It looks-"

 

Whatever Sora's comment about Rinoa's car was going to be was cut short by Riku stepping furiously on his foot. Laughing, Yuffie said,” It's fine, I realize it's a little...okay, a lot small. And it has a few...well, a lot of dents. And one of the headlights is...um...missing."

For a moment, everyone stared at the Car From Hell in revered silence.

'I really don't think that thing's safe' Kairi thought.

'I really want to make out with Riku tonight' Sora thought.

'Why is Sora staring at me?' Riku thought.

'Kairi looks pretty cute in that skirt' Yuffie thought.

'I am so gonna score tonight' thought Rinoa.

'Why on Earth did I agree to come here again? Oh yes, adult supervision...' Ellone reminded herself. "Okay then!" Yuffie said, pumping her fist into the air.

"Who's ready to go? Oh yeah, and we're going to be sitting about two to a seat, so get comfortable."

 

- A few things about this story have changed. For instance, I was planning for Selphie or maybe Yuna to be in it more than they were. Well actually, they aren't in it at all. Now that I've read thorough certain parts of it, this story is okay, I suppose...FFX-2 is really pissing me off. I'm trying to find that damn Vegnagun bastard, but the stupid control panel thingys won't let me go down into that damn hole. Damn it all. This game sucks. I'm gonna beat it and sell it to one of my friends or something...