Kingdom Hearts Fan Fiction ❯ Untitled Notepad ❯ Of Yuffie and Kairi ( Chapter 6 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

Ch.6: Of Yuffie and Kairi

-bewaaaaaaaaaaaag, another a/n! I should have internet soon, so this story's gonna be posted relatively soon. ah, yes, this is my first story where ive actually typed it out instead of writing on paper. This Utada Hikaru CD is awesome. Exodus '04, I believe? Song number 7 reminds me of this story, for some reason....read my other fic(s)!!! I'm downloading music right now and it's taking forever...this U.H. song says it needs 36 hours to load...

Kairi laughed as Yuffie smashed a Fancy Ketchup packet in her friend Squall's face, following up with some Fancy Mustard.

"Yuffie! Would you please stop, for the love of God?! Where the hell are these things even coming from?! This is a new jacket, by the way. Why don't you fucking get a life and actually use the damn packets?"

For about a week now, Kairi had taken up residence at Yuffie's lunch table. To her, this was a huge step- not only was she sitting in the vicinity of Yuffie, but about a dozen other people she didn't know and would usually avoid. Small steps turning into big ones.

At first she thought the fact that they had kissed would make things different. This being said, the next Monday at school she took the effort to try to avoid Yuffie to no avail. Yuffie found her, teased her, and persuaded her to hang out with her. Nothing really changed. In fact, if anything was changing it was Kairi.

Yuffie acted like nothing happened between them for whatever reason, so Kairi did too. She was relieved a bit, but then somewhere inside her she was a little upset. Did the kiss not mean anything to Yuffie? Was she just some other random girl to her? `It's not really all that important now. We're still…friends, I guess, so nothing needs to change. I guess.'

Yuffie still messed around with her, and she still tried to keep her audacious behavior in check.

But, if not their attitudes toward each other, something else did change...

Kairi's feelings toward Rinoa. Now whenever she'd see Rinoa pick Yuffie up from school, she'd feel a vicious stab of jealousy. It wasn't that Kairi hated Rinoa, she just hated the fact that she was with Yuffie.

For Kairi, Yuffie was pretty much the first person she'd ever liked. It seemed a little unfair that she'd already been taken. There was no hiding or trying to deny it now; Kairi really liked Yuffie. And she couldn't help but feel that Rinoa was up to something. She wasn't sure if it was her new jealous streak or what, but for some reason Rinoa seemed to be...hiding something.

'It's not really my concern anyway' she thought as Squall's girlfriend Quistis chased Yuffie around the table, 'Yuffie knows what she's doing...' Despite that, though, she just couldn't help but feel a little like she was getting the short end of the stick. As usual.

"Hey you!" someone called. Turning around in her seat, she saw it was another of Yuffie's friends, Tattoo Face.

Also known as Zell.

"Sorry about the whole making fun of you thing" he said, sitting down by her. Apparently since she was sitting at his table she was now his friend. She didn't see how that worked, but whatever. It was better than being picked on.

"It's fine" Kairi muttered.

"So anyway" he whispered as he leaned in to her, "you like Yuffie, right?"

"Wh-what?!" Kairi said, causing almost everyone (except Yuffie and Quistis) to look over at them.

"Oh come on, you're always staring at her and you blush like crazy when she actually notices you..."

Kairi blinked owlishly. "Well...um, I don't hate her..."

Clapping loudly, Zell laughed.

"Yeah, I figured as much. But, you know, Irvine has a thing for you, too...”

Kairi frowned but said nothing.

'Who cares what Irvine likes?' she thought bitterly.

'That guy's a weirdo...'

Zell cocked his head.

"Helloooo? You deaf or somethin'? What do you think? Irvine's showing up at Yuffie's concert this weekend. He says he feels really bad for what happened...whatever that may be."

'I bet he only said that to try and con me over...it's not like I'd ever go there again...oh, what? Concert?'

“Concert? What concert?”

Dodging another one of Quistis' open-hand slaps, Yuffie grinned and gave her the thumbs-up. “Didn't I tell you the other night? I'm having a concert- I'm in a band with these idiots.”

“Keep insulting me to my face and I'll kick your ass” Leon snapped, carefully removing the condiment collage off his jacket.

“You're in a band?” Kairi gasped, her eyes shining. That's so cool! With who? What do you do?”

“The idiots is who. Leon, Seifer and Demyx. Demyx, however, goes to Twilight Town High, so it's a bit of a pain getting him to show up to practices. I didn't tell you this?”

“No!”

“Really? What about the other weekend-“

Blushing suddenly, Yuffie turned to Leon and continued to make fun of him. Kairi followed suit.

Seeing the look on Kairi's face, Zell said, "Hey, Yuffie! You goin' to Irvine's party tomorrow?"

"Why the hell does that matter?”

“Oh, I dunno, just thiiinking.”

With this, he glanced at Kairi and winked so noticeably everyone looked at her like they were sharing some joke.

Speaking of jokes, there was someone she'd kind of fallen out of touch with. `I need to talk to those two…'

With an auspicious sigh, Rinoa leaned back on the loveseat in Ellone's apartment, rubbing the back of her head in frustration. Something was going on with Yuffie and she just wasn't telling her what it was. For days now it was eating away at Rinoa that she didn't know what was wrong. “Is it Tifa? Is she bothering you about us?”

“No, it's nothing, Rinoa, honest. Can we please stop talking about it? I'm fine now, see?”

No matter how much she said that Rinoa knew it was a total load of crap. Yuffie was acting different. Quiet. True, Rinoa was always the more talkative of the two, but that didn't mean that Yuffie was little Mrs. Silent Treatment. `She's hiding something from me…'

“Rinoa? Did you come over for tea or something? What's wrong? I kind of have to leave soon to get to the Club Officer meeting for the school.”

But if she was hiding something what was it? The two of them never hid anything from each other- they were so close. `Are we really? How close are we if every two seconds I keep suspecting something? This is driving me nuts.'

The last thing Rinoa wanted was to loose Yuffie. She loved her, she needed her. Yuffie was everything to her. `So why the hiding everything…?'

“Rinoa? What's wrong? I don't really know if now's the time for this…”

Ellone stopped short, seeing the tears on Rinoa's face. “Oh, God, Ellone, I'm worried about Yuffie! She's acting so different, and I don't know what's going on and…”

“Yuffie?” Ellone asked frowning a bit. “That's what you're worried about? She's acting fine at school; there's no need for you to be crying like this-“

“She's fine at school?”

“As far as I've seen, yes. I mean, since I only show up after school for the computer club I wouldn't see her every day, but lately she's been coming around with Kairi a lot.”

“…Really?”

“Yeah. Look, Rinoa, now really isn't the time, I have to-“

“No, that's fine, that's fine…Can I come back tomorrow?”

“Here? To my place?”

“Yeah.”

“….” Rinoa was so busy worrying about Yuffie that she didn't catch the look on Ellone's face. Turns out, she'd be seeing a lot of it in a while.

“Um, Sora?”

“Yo! What's up, Kaaairi? You need to borrow money or something?”

“Please tell me why I would be asking you for money.”

“I dunno, to buy some more stuffed moogels or something like that? That whole girl thing.”

“Is Riku there?”

“Isn't he always? We're in the middle of some nude body sculpting, but your phone call kinda put that to moot.”

“….”

“Joking, joking, I wish there was nudity…we're just watching Speed Racer. Why, what's up?”

“Put me on speakerphone.”

With a deep breath, Kairi closed her eyes, waiting for the subtle click to announce her presence to the rest of Sora's living room. She couldn't believe what she was about to do.

“Hey Kairi” Riku shouted above the Speed Racer theme song, “spill it. We're about to do some nude body sculpting.”

“Really?”

“Shut up, Sora, let her talk. Christ.”

“Um, I, uh…I'm going to one of Yuffie's concerts. She's in a band.”

Neither Riku nor Sora had anything to say to this. There was some mumbling, and Speed Racer's volume was cut in half. She felt a little cornered.

“You're probably wondering why I've been spending so much time around her, right?”

“….”

“Well, um…you see, she and I…we kind of…or I kind of…like her. A lot. A-and I don't know if she likes me back but we kissed and-“

“Woah! She kissed you?!” Riku and Sora yelled in synch, nearly blowing her eardrums out. “She kissed you? Duh she likes you! Why didn't you tell us you were a lesbian? We should've known, Riku, she likes The Postal Service. Only lesbians like them.”

“Yeah, that's true. They totally suck.”

“….”

Kairi didn't know whether to be embarrassed or to laugh at the fact that they were so accepting. It wasn't like she expected them to be against it, seeing as how they were gay, but still; she was expecting at least…well, she didn't know, honestly. Just something scarier.

“Huh. That's cool, I guess. It kinda sucks you didn't tell us sooner. But doesn't Yuffie have some older girlfriend? Rinoa or whatever? So what about her?” Riku asked.

That's when Kairi's thought process took a turn for the negative. What about Rinoa?

“Couldn't sleep so I went out walking. Thinking about us, and hearing us talking. And all the things I should've said echo loud inside my head.”

Kairi was head over heels. She stood off to the side of the miniature makeshift stage, simply in awe. Yuffie was singing. Good singing. Incredibly.

“I've seen something falling from the sky. I'm so sad I made the angels cry; tears from the moon fall down like rain. I reach for you- I reach in vain. Tears from the moon…tears from the moon…”

“This song sucks!” Sora, jibed, bobbing to the music. “I'm totally not enjoying myself! I'd rather eat nails and kill myself! Quick, Kai, who am I?”

“Shut up, I have food poisoning!” Riku whispered, nudging him with his elbows. “It's not my fault this place sells nachos that went out of commission in the last decade…”

Kairi loved her friends. She loved that song, she loved Yuffie and her band. She loved the fact that she was there at all, standing in a crowd of no more than thirty people at some youth club “concert hall” gazing up at the girl she liked. A lot.

“It just ain't fair; this thing called loving. When one's still there and the other feels nothing. I would've done anything for you. I still love you; baby I adore you. All day I keep from falling apart, but at night when the sky gets dark tears from the moon fall down like rain. I reach for you, I reach in vain.”

Rinoa wasn't in the audience. Rinoa didn't show up at Leon's house before everyone left. She didn't even call. `But I'm here' Kairi thought, looking up at Yuffie and thinking about just how much she'd changed. How much everything had changed. In a few weeks everything about her was different. She actually had something that could've somewhat been called a backbone. She was getting closer to Yuffie, and even to Sora and Riku. She wanted to tell the other girl everything, everything about her. What she loved, what she hated. Her craptastic parents, her insecurities, and even her sister. She wanted Yuffie to know everything about her. `I want her to be able to talk to me like that too. I want to know about her parents.'

“Stop! Stop haunting me. It should be easy- as easy as when you stopped wanting me. Tears from the moon…tears from the moon…”

Looking up, Kairi tried to catch Yuffie's eye. The place wasn't very full, so she could've just called out to her and she would've noticed. But silence seemed to be the better option.

Almost immediately, Yuffie looked back at her and grinned.

Usually Yuffie went out of her way to be an unconformist. She spread her peanut butter and jelly on the same slice of bread, she liked girls and she was good in math- all things that most other people would deem as a little odd. So, for Kairi's sake, she felt she should be particularly crazy just to set the mood. Why ruin her reputation? The night had barely begun and already she'd thrown an egg at Leon (only to be hit in the stomach by Quistis, who had the strength of 80 men). Now a selective few members of the gang were off to Irvine's house, meaning she still had opportunity to act like a jackass. Why not utilize Zell's new car? Yuffie squealed in delight as she stuck her head out of Zell's car window, ignoring the fact that it was probably a dangerous thing to do.

"Yuffie, you're going to get decapitated if you keep that up!" he yelled for probably the fifth time so far. “I swear to God If I get some sort of ticket for that I'm kicking your ass. Since you're a huge dyke you count as a guy, so don't think I won't!”

Laughing, Kairi pulled her back into the car.

"He's right, you know, that's dangerous" she advised. “I think my social life would take a bit of a halt if you had your head removed.”

Yuffie only laughed.

It was good to be spending time with Kairi...but she knew it was wrong. She wasn't going to try anything just 'cause Rinoa was still at home, but still... the fact remained that she wanted to try something.

Yuffie watched Kairi stare out the window and smiled.

"Hey! This is probably the first time you haven't yawned when we went somewhere!"

It was true. Almost right at nine-thirty Kairi would start to get tired.

Smiling, Kairi said, “Well, since I met you, my sleeping schedule has been thrown off-balance, I guess. I used to go to bed at eight."

“You had a bedtime?”

“Yeah! What's wrong with that?”

“…How old are you, fourteen?”

“That's not funny.”

“Yeah it is.”

"We're here, guys", Zell said, stepping out of the car.

"Ah, another of Irvine's infamous parties!" Yuffie said as they all exited the car. “I haven't even talked to this ass in a few weeks, I wonder why he even invited- oh, yeah, that's why…you alright, Kai?” she asked, using the “Kai” just because she knew it made her embarrassed.

"Well, I have been dragged here billions of other times before..."

Also true. For quite a while now, Yuffie had dragged Kairi Rinoa-style out of her house and into Irvine's. At first it bothered Kairi because of Irvine's strange behavior that one night, but ever since then he seemed to change. Now his main focus seemed to be asking Kairi questions about herself, all which she dodged answering.

Fortunately, Yuffie had stepped in and bailed her out, as usual. Thankfully, every time Kairi was left with Irvine, Yuffie would come get her within minutes. Irvine noticed this.

"Do you want to split up or what?" Yuffie asked as Zell mingled with the thing known as the House of Irvine.

"No" the younger girl responded, remembering that Rinoa wasn't going to be there. `I'm not encouraging that Yuffie be a two-timer. I just want her to forget about Rinoa.'

All the time she was spending around bolder people must've been rubbing off on her- Kairi's thoughts seemed to be getting darker and darker. For her, anyway.

'With her gone I can actually talk to Yuffie without being interrupted...'

Yuffie had called Rinoa to take her along, but Rinoa said she had other plans (AKA work...but what work would that be? She had no job, as far as Kairi had been told).

"Alrighty" Yuffie said as she led the way.

"I have a feeling tonight's going to be an eventful night. You get that feeling, Kairi? Speaking of eventful, where are your tag along boys? Probably making out or something…we should totally barge in on Sora's house tonight just to freak them out. It'll be fun; I have a gorilla mask you can wear.”

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"So, you lied to Rinoa and said you were nineteen?" Kairi asked over the blaring music.

"Oh yeah!" Yuffie laughed, spying some people playing twister. “I met her in some gay teen support group thing a while ago. In all honesty I'm surprised she fell for it- I don't look nineteen at all. Sad thing is, she only ever found out my real age recently..."

The smile Yuffie had on her face was crushing. The whole situation really wasn't fair. Should Kairi even have a reason to feel so jealous? Or did she have the right to speak up and tell Yuffie how she felt? `She must like me even a little bit; she did kiss me after all…'

But no matter how much she and Yuffie hung out Kairi couldn't really tell what the other girl was thinking. Sure, she put her arm around her and hugged her all the time, but Yuffie was touchy-feely with everyone. Just because it meant something to Kairi didn't mean it meant something to her.

"...How long have the two of you been dating?" Kairi asked feeling her heart loose height along with the volume of the music.

"Eh...about 7 months, I'd say."

"..."

Kairi fiddled with her mystery drinkâ„¢ on the table as the volume of the music soared to new heights.

Sure, she knew Yuffie was happy with Rinoa, and when it came down to it that's what really mattered, but...

'I know she's hiding something' she thought, thinking of the black-haired girl. `And I know that I want to date Yuffie. I like her as more than a friend. I'm not ashamed to tell that to Sora or Riku, but what about the rest of the world? Would I ever be able to be as open about it as she is? Yuffie and I are two different people- would we even be compatible as more than friends? Would I even be feeling these kinds of things for any other girl?'

For some reason, Kairi felt as if something bad was about to happen, and Rinoa would be the root of that very problem.

The music became slow, and Kairi smiled faintly. This was the song Yuffie played on her guitar the night they...

"Dance with me?"

Looking up from Mystery Drinkâ„¢ in her hands, she saw a smiling Yuffie holding her hand out to her. "C'mon" she continued, "I've never not danced during a slow song, and I don't want to start now. Rinoa won't be mad, she'll be glad. It's an upstanding tradition."

"Is this just an excuse to dance with me?" Kairi laughed as she got up.

"Eh...maybe."

She seemed dressed in all of me, stretched across my shame, all the torment and the pain...

leaked through and covered me.

I'd do anything to have her to myself, just to have her for myself.

Now I don't know what to do; I don't know what to do and she makes me sad.

Kairi could feel Yuffie's light grasp as she clasped her hands together at her waist.

Putting her hands together at the back of Yuffie's neck, Kairi felt herself tensing up in hesitation.

Should she be doing this?

Should she...?

"You look in conflict" Yuffie said, noting how rigid she was.

"You're so stiff."

She is everything to me; the unrequited dream.

The song that no one sings; the unattainable.

She's a myth that I have to believe in, all I need to make it real is one more reason.

I don't know what to do...I don't know what to do and she makes me sad.

The two girls pulled closer together, with Kairi's head on Yuffie's shoulder.

"You're really short, you know?" Yuffie joked as they continued to dance.

"Well maybe you're just too tall..."

Kairi could feel her interest in the world fading away; she wanted there to be nothing else. One thing in particular that had her heart racing; how close they were. Kairi wasn't a person to be casually touchy like Sora was, and Yuffie knew this. Would her head on the other girl's shoulder be enough of a flag for her to realize that she liked her? Would it take more for Yuffie to realize what Kairi was thinking about?

What was Yuffie thinking about?

`Do I even know what's going through my head?' Kairi asked herself, sighing slightly. `Yuffie and I haven't even known each other that long, so why am I feeling these things? How are we so close when we've barely had any time together?'

But I won't let this build up inside of me

I won't let this build up inside of me

I won't let this build up inside of me....

Kairi closed her eyes as Yuffie's grip slightly altered.

Was she having second thoughts about dancing like this?

Because of Rinoa?

"You know" Yuffie said quietly, "Rinoa and I have never done this."

What?

"She's never slow-danced with me...says she would rather do a faster dance..."

A catch in my throat, choke, torn into pieces I won't; no.

I don't wanna be this but I won't let this build up inside of me

I won't let this build up inside of me

I won't let this build up inside of me...

Kairi remained silent.

She wondered how much longer this song would last.

How longer this relationship would last....

"You're also the only other person I've wanted to talk to about my parents" Yuffie said.

"I wonder why..."

She isn't real; I can't make her real

The vocals smoothed out and the guitar was left to wash away the remnants of Kairi's emotions, making her dread the end of the night. She wanted to hear about Yuffie's parents, she wanted to hear about what Yuffie liked and didn't - she just wanted to know more about her. Everything, even. What would happen once the dumb party was over? Kairi would go home and bury herself in the internet and Yuffie would go home with Rinoa?

Yuffie sighed as she felt Kairi slump onto her.

"I'm happy you're relaxed and all" she said, "but I'm not a crutch."

"Humph" was the response she got.

The music, along with their movements, gently subsided and left Kairi with a bittersweet feeling.

Kairi gazed into Yuffie's eyes as they stopped, feeling hazy.

"Let's sit down" Yuffie said, breaking the mood.

Kairi followed Yuffie to the nearest empty couch, which turned out to be in the next room.

Kairi sat down on the only available cushion (Axel and Larxene were...occupying the other ones) and Yuffie sat on the floor in front of her.

"My mom killed herself and my father just took off on us" Yuffie said with a satisfied look on her face.

"What? I'm sorry, I... why do you have that look on your face if you're talking about something like that?"

“Because that look on your face is adorable. Really, it doesn't bother me as much as it used to. Still, I haven't even told Rinoa about them. I feel like I shouldn't, for some reason. Kairi, stop looking like you're going to cry. I feel like a bad person `cause it's cute. If I'm not crying than you don't need to either. I'm perfectly happy with my life now, you know - I have good friends and I love Rinoa, so that's enough to keep me happy.”

“I love Rinoa.” That statement shot through Kairi like a bullet. So she did like Rinoa a lot. Love, she said.

Kairi was so confused. What were Yuffie's feelings for her? If she loved Rinoa so much than why would she have kissed her? Why would she tell her things that her own girlfriend didn't know?

It seemed to Kairi that Yuffie liked her too, but she still looked happy with Rinoa.

But then again, maybe it was just Yuffie being friendly with her.

After all, she did have a more open personality than Kairi was used to...

`So it's none of my business' she thought, feeling tears well up in her eyes. `What Yuffie decides to do with her life is none of my business.'

That was pretty hard to even think. For about a month she'd liked Yuffie. For about a month she'd been left hanging in some weird in between phase in their relationship. How would she know if there was even a chance for things to happen between them unless she made an effort to?

"Um...Yuffie?" she asked, feeling her chest tighten.

"Uh...about Rinoa..."

"Eh?" Yuffie asked, probably wearing a smile (Kairi was still looking at her lap).

"If...if she wasn't...around...would there be..."

"?"

"Would...would there be any chance of anything happening between us?"

`Would there be any chance of you saying that I was the girl you loved?'

Kairi, like most other reasonable people, knew when something said has totally ruined an otherwise okay atmosphere. This was one of those times. First of all, she'd pretty much stated that she was totally head over heels infatuated with Yuffie, second, Yuffie had gone dead silent. Yuffie was never silent.

"A-heh...that's an unusually bold question...for you, anyways."

Kairi continued to blink rapidly as she stared downwards.

She wanted Yuffie to say yes, that if Rinoa wasn't around there could be something between them, but she wasn't sure how Yuffie would take the question.

After about thirty seconds pause, there came a soft "Look at me."

Kairi didn't.

With wide eyes, she stared down at her lap and bit her lip. How could she be so direct?

She was sure Yuffie felt the same way, but-

"Kairi...look at me."

Kairi looked up and into Yuffie's eyes, which looked just about as confused as she felt.

"Yes. If I wasn't with Rinoa now...I would defiantly be with you."

Yuffie stood up and Kairi felt as if she could fly to the ends of the earth. So Yuffie really did feel the same.

But there was still a roadblock...

"Let's get Zell to drop us off; I better check on Rinoa."

Yuffie looked (and sounded) a little out of character. Usually she was so laid back and in control, but now she looked like she was trying to disarm a bomb.

Kairi stood up but refused to look at Yuffie.

'Another awkward silence in our history...' she thought distantly.

She felt like she should do something; anything to show Yuffie how she felt (even though she was sure she just got the major hint).

As Yuffie tried to turn around, Kairi stopped her.

Leaning up, she kissed her briefly.

Yuffie stared ahead as Kairi lowered herself back down.

"Um...I..."

Yuffie didn't say a word as she continued her blank stare.

If Yuffie wasn't so smart, Kairi could've just played it off as an accident; after all, it looked as if she were trying to lean up to tell her something.

Yuffie finally looked down at Kairi, disbelief in her eyes.

"I'm not going to break up with Rinoa."

Another bullet through Kairi's chest. So she did like Rinoa more…it wasn't really so surprising, just hurtful. She was hoping that maybe there was some chance that the tow of them would be more than just friends.

"Oh. Um..."

Kairi'd told herself not to cry, and not to make a fool of herself, but what else could really have been done? The girl she liked more than anyone else had just shot her down in flames. She felt like such an idiot; there she went opening herself up to Yuffie and the possibility of something more between the two of them and she got turned down. Of course.

“Oh, God, Kairi, I'm sorry. Please don't cry; it's making me feel like crap - I don't want you to feel bad. But I love her Kairi, I really do. She's the most important person in the world to me, and I'm so sorry for tagging you along like I've been. I've known how you feel -because I like you like that too, Kairi, but it's just not the same as with Rinoa. I just don't know what's going on in my own head. Sorry. Really, I am. I want us to still be friends, but I honestly can't see us being…you know…I'm so sorry, Kairi…”

Yuffie tried to wipe away Kairi's tears with her hand in some sort of start at patching things up, but Kairi slapped her hand away and stepped back, still trying to bite back tears. “It's just not the same for you as it is for me! You have no problems in relationships with people like I do! You were supposed to be the one who knew how to handle this! It's not fair, Yuffie! Why would you torture me like this and just say that you can't be with me? I don't…I don't…want to be mad about this…”

“…Kairi, I'm -“

“But I am! I love you, Yuffie, and I can't help but feel like you're ripping my heart out and stepping all over it!”

This time it was Yuffie's turn to be shot in the chest. `Love? Love?'

It wasn't so shocking that Kairi felt that way, but that she'd said it out loud. “I love you, Yuffie.”

She'd told Rinoa she'd loved her, and meant it. Rinoa had said it to her, and meant it. So why was her heart in pieces at the sight of poor little Kairi crying her eyes out in front of her? Why did she want to hold her and comfort her and tell her that…she loved her too?

“…Kairi, I…this isn't all that easy for me either, you know! How do you think I feel, being with Rinoa but wanting to be with you at the same time? How the hell do you think it makes me feel, knowing someone is going to get hurt? I'm sorry if I'm not perfect, but I love Rinoa! I mean that from the bottom of my heart! I can't just turn my back on her!”

“But you can turn your back on me.”

“….”

Yuffie was an exceptionally smart girl - she could answer most questions on quiz shows right, she knew how to cheat on sweepstakes giveaways, and she could memorize song lyrics in a flash. Common sense, however, was a little foreign to her. She was more of the act on the moment kind of girl, so that's what she did. She didn't want to be fighting with Kairi and she didn't want to see her crying.

So she kissed her.

- My tailbone really hurts. This story's turned out surprisingly well. I've gotten the sequel to BtCM, and I'm gonna type it up...sometime....maybe....eh....probably. Well nothing much to say here...except that it's one oh eight a.m. and im so tired my spleen is eating itself. Ah, yes, the song Yuffie and Kairi were dancing to. It's Vermillion pt.2 by slipknot. The song at the concert is “Tears From the Moon” by Sinead O' Connor, and yes I like the postal service. I know, I know, im totally gay. Anywho, this part of the a/n Is being written 3 years after the rest (im revising the story), and the more I reread this the more I dislike this story. I just want it done and over with…