Authors Note: Hey, this is my first fan-fic! I hope it isn't that crappy (wince). This first chapter may seem off, but I couldn't really figure out how to start it.

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Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts...but God how I wish I owned Riku evil grin

Claimer: I do own the plot line :)

Chapter 1

She's Back

It had been two weeks since they saw her. They didn't recognize her at all when she went into the lunch line, until Riku nudged Sora and frowned.

"Is that...Kairi?" He asked.

Sora looked over at the lunch line and smiled. He waved to Kairi, who noticed him and came over.

Before, it was short skirts, pink things, cute accessories. Now she was wearing extremely baggy pants and a black baggy hoodie. The hood was on, hiding most of her face. She walked over to them and as soon as she set down her tray Sora pulled her into a hug.

"How're you doin' Kai?" He asked, trying to sound casual but failing.

Kairi just shrugged and shook her head.

Riku took a better approach and didn't mention anything. Not about Kairi being in the hospital for two weeks, or the fact that the hospital was for people with eating disorders.

A minute later, however, Sora couldn't help but notice Kairi hadn't touched her food. Riku gave him a 'don't ask' look, but Kairi caught on.

"I'm waiting for the caff lady." Kairi said, speaking for the first time. "I have to go by a stupid eating plan, and soo I have to wait for her to get something."

"Uh...I wasn't even going to ask that." Sora said, but Kairi rolled her eyes.

Sora and Riku were more or less black holes - they were stuffing they're fries in they're mouth like it was their last meal. Kairi was eating her apple slowly, watching them and looking around boredly. Within another five minutes, Riku and Sora were completely done - Kairi was only half done her egg sandwich.

"Why don't you take off the sweatshirt, Kairi?" Riku asked after a moment. "It's like a million degrees in here."

Kairi shook her head, pulling out a cucumber from between the bread and eating it. "I don't want you to see how bad I look."

"Your look pretty." Sora said, pushing back her hood, revealing her face and soft mahogany hair. Her cheeks weren't as rosy - her eyes looked tired, but other then that, Sora thought she looked normal. A group of noisy people sat down and started eating - then noticed Kairi.

"Kai!" Selphie hugged her tightly. "Your back! I missed you."

"I missed you too." Kairi said.

"You don't look anorexic." Wakka said. Sora and Riku kicked him under the table while Kairi chose to ignore it.

"Nice to have ya back, Kairi." Tidus said through a mouth-full of food.

"Thanks." Kairi said quietly.

Another few minutes later and they were all done eating, with the exception of Kairi. Sora was throwing his garbage at Riku in a bored way, seeing how the bell wouldn't ring for half an hour for break.

"Just take it off." Selphie pleaded.

"No." Kairi said flatly.

"Pleeeaassee!" Selphie whined.

"I-"

"You'd look gorgeous even if you shaved your hair!" Selphie said, tugging on her sweatshirt. "Take it off!"

"Fine." Kairi snapped. "But come to the bathroom, I'm not doing it here."

Selphie hopped up and steered Kairi out of the cafeteria, then down to the bathrooms. Kairi locked the door behind them and took a breath before pulling off her sweatshirt.

Selphie tried her best to hide her surprise. Kairi was wearing the school's uniform top underneath, but her arms were pale and extremely skinny. She had obviously put fake tanner on her face, trying to make herself look less sick.

"See?" Kairi's voice cracked. "I look horrible."

"No you don't, Kai." Selphie said in a soft, convincing tone. "You don't look horrible. You look a bit sick, but no where near horrible."

"Thanks Selph," Kairi said, pulling on her shirt. "It means allot."

Selphie gave a smile, her green eyes bright as she surveyed Kairi.

"How long are they letting you wear the normal clothes?" Selphie asked as she pulled out a hairbrush from her purse.

"I dunno, I guess as long as I want - they said it'd be better if I did, probably don't want their school looking bad." Kairi said, watching as Selphie brushed her hair that flicked outwards.

"Well lucky it's casual Friday, but what're you gonna do on Monday? You'll stand out more then if you wore the uniform." Selphie pointed out.

"I dunno, maybe I'll wear the colors or something so I don't stand out." Kairi took the brush from Selphie and started doing her own hair.

"We're going to a movie tonight, you're going to come, right?"

Kairi paused, frowning at her reflection.

"I don't know..." She said quietly.

"Well if I can't convince you, which I probably will, Sora's whining will get you to go."

"What's that mean, Sora's whinning?" Kairi asked.

"He was really...concerned for you, Kai. We haven't seen you in two weeks or heard anything from you, Sora must be really happy to get you back."

"Why Sora?" Kairi asked. "Aren't you or Riku or the others?"

"We were worried!" Selphie's eyes showed she was telling the truth. "It's just, Sora was worried because he totally digs you."

Kairi's pale, fake tanned face went pink. "No he doesn't!" She said quickly.

"And you like hi-"

"No I don't!" Kairi said quickly. "I don't like him at all! H-he's just a -er-friend..." She stuttered and finished lamely.

"Yeah alright, let's go back to the table and say hi to Sora the -just-your-friend guy."

"Selph...you do know that made no sense?"

"I almost ran out of come backs with you gone." Selphie shook her head. "So good thing your back - I'm losing my touch!"

Kairi smiled, shook her head at the incredibly random Selphie, then went back to the lunch room.

Part 2

tick.

Friggin

tock.

annoying

tick.

damn

tock.

slow

tick.

clock.

The history's clock was probably from history, and that was why it was a million times slower then other clocks. That was Kairi's theory, anyway. She watched Mr. Valentine write notes on the board about wars and who knows what else - for all she knew, he was writing out his secret way of taking over the world. Or a cake recipe - Kairi couldn't read the friggin words. They looked like kids scribbles. Which meant she actually had to pay attention to what he was saying and write it down.

"And then Grescent killed Robert-" Mr. Valentine's monotone rang out through the silent room, along with the loud ticking.

Geez, Kairi thought. If this was Sora or someone else telling the story, it'd be so interesting!

For the next ten minutes Kairi found herself day-dreaming about Sora pushing the teacher out the window and taking on the lecture, emphasizing the fights and running around the room, getting all excited as he described every little detail. Yup, that was Sora alright. A hand waved in front of her face and she jumped. Someone touched her foot under the desk and, making sure Mr. Valentine had his back to her, Kairi placed her foot on top of a ball of paper and pulled it towards her. Kairi quickly picked up the note before the teacher noticed and unfolded it, sticking it behind her history book. It was they're old way of passing notes during class, and if anyone found it they didn't know who it was to.

KoolKey: U coming to the movies 2nite?

Kairi wrote down under it:

Strawberry - I guess, I dunno, what if we get homework?

As Kairi passed it, it got intercepted by Riku. She watched Mr. Valentine until she felt the nudge. Picking it up when the teacher turned, she read three new sentences.

Shutit : We got all weekend for homework

Bubble jet: And if you don't come I...well I'll think of something bad to do

KoolKey: Pleeeaaazzee

It took Kairi several minutes to decipher who everyone was - they had changed names while she was gone. Of course she was Strawberry, and KoolKey had to be Sora. Shutit was Riku because he had been the first one to write when Kairi passed it and Bubble Jet was Selphie.

Selphie had just kicked another note:

Bubble Jet: I'll tell everyone you like Sora!

Almost before Kairi had finished reading it she had wrote,

Strawberry - Yeah sure - bell rings in three minutes!...or on this clock it'll seem like thirty minutes...

After History Kairi headed down to the change rooms with the others - next was gym, done by the two most, well, loudest teachers. Usually girls went Wednesday, boys Monday, and Friday was everyone.

It was easily one of the most awkward moments for Kairi. While everyone went into the gym in shorts and tank-tops, Kairi walked in in the same baggy clothes.

"I want ten laps! You stop, I make it twenty!" Mr. Highwind barked. "GO!"

He looked over at Kairi and opened his mouth, ready to yell, but then closed it and walked over. They talked quietly for a second before Kairi took a seat on the sidelines.

"Mullet!" Highwind shouted. "Ten more laps, I don't need you gawking at me! Potter! Drop and give me thirty! I SAW YOU ROLL THOSE EYES!! FOURTY PUSH-UPS!"

After the laps were done, Kairi followed them outside and took a seat on the bleachers. They had to run another five laps, and then went into warm ups. Normally, Kairi was one of the more popular girls, since her and her friends were one of the coolest crowd. But she kept getting rude looks thrown her way from the other girls. Half an hour later they were throwing around footballs and going to start a game of dodge ball. Kairi couldn't help but smile when Sora accidently sacked Wakka in the nuts. After two rounds the coaches let the kids take a break and drink some water - there was still another hour or so of Gym / school to finish. While the others were drinking water and catching their breath, Kairi distinctly heard a girl say,

"What is up with her? She thinks just because she's some anorexic shit that she doesn't have to get a little muddy?"

Kairi felt herself burn with anger. They didn't know, they had no idea-

But she was sparred the evil words when Riku said scathingly,

"Yeah and I heard you got an abortion last week - That would be why your afraid to get your feet dirty, right?"

There was laughter, but the girl looked shocked. The look on her face made it seem like, 'how did you know?' which prompted even more laughter.

Kairi, however, didn't find it as amusing. She got up, walked down the bleachers and headed off in the direction of the school.

Part 3

"What's their problem?" Sora asked once the bell rang for end of school.

"You tell me." Riku said, watching as the girls passed.

"I mean, they can't honestly think that she wanted to go there-" Sora got cut off by Wakka jumping between them, followed by Tidus.

"Tuff workout, ya?" Wakka asked.

"Next time wear your jock, Wakka!" Tidus grinned. "Unless you want Sora to sack you again."

"Where's Kairi?" Selphie asked, distracting the boys from another fight. "Never mind, I'll just call her..."

"Kairi." Selphie said clearly into the cell phone. There was dialing sound, then a ringing.

"Heyy it's Selphie...where are you? ...No you aren't..." Selphie glanced behind her and did a double take. "Oh."

She closed the cell phone as Kairi walked towards them, looking tired.

"Heyy! m'kay so we're meeting up for the movie at six-thirty, okeey-dokeey?" Selphie asked cheerfully. Kairi nodded slowly, leaning against her closed locker.

"Hey Kairi are you-" Sora started to ask, but in the next second Kairi slid sideways from the locker. Sora quickly caught her, one hand on her side and the other on her elbow.

"Kairi!" Riku said. "What's wrong?"

"I..." Kairi's eyes were sliding in and out of focus. Sora lifted her higher, so she was standing but leaning on Sora.

"Kai are you gonna be alright?" Selphie asked in a fearful voice. Kairi's vision swam. She closed her eyes and opened them.

"I feel kinda funny." She said.

"We should take her to the nurses," Sora said in a scared voice. "Riku, can you-"

Riku got on the other side of Kairi and lifted her into his arms.

"I was going to say get a teacher..." Riku heard Sora mutter, but followed him down to the nurses office anyway.

Once down there the nurse said to lay Kairi down on the bed, then kicked them out.

"So rude." Selphie said, planting her hands on her hips.

"Think we should wait around?" Sora asked.

"She won't let us in." Tidus said.

"Yeah but what if Kairi needs help gettin' home?" Sora casually placed his hands behind his head.

"Then they call her parents, doofus." Wakka rolled his eyes. "Let's go."

"Should we really be here?" Selphie asked. "I mean, shouldn't we be like comforting Kairi, not watching a movie? She could be really sick!"

"Whose sick?" Kairi walked over to them, hands in her pockets.

"Kairi! Feelin' better already?" Selphie asked cheerfully. Kairi nodded.

"I just had a dizzy spell, I had them alot when...I was back, y'know, there...Anyway what movie we seeing?"

"How 'bout Advent Children?" Tidus asked through a mouthful of popcorn.

Riku scowled. "That movie is so not cool. It's a bunch of silver-haired wanna be's beating up other spiky haired wanna be's."

Sora looked up innocently at the words 'spiky hair'.

"You haven't even seen the movie, Riku." Selphie said. "How do you know you won't like it?"

"Well it's either that or some sappy love story." Wakka said. "Or like Harry Pot-head."

"...You like Harry Potter." Sora looked questionably at Wakka.

"Yeah but Harry Pot-head sounds so much cooler."

Selphie cleared her throat. "So that's a yes on Advent Children?"

They murmured their agreement, bought tickets and popcorn, then settled into theater 9.

"THIS MOVIE'S BORING!" Tidus said loudly, attempting to throw popcorn at the screen but hitting several people instead.

"It's the preview." Kairi said, biting licorice.

"Get to the movie!!" Sora called, throwing popcorn at Wakka, who threw it at Riku.

"Well we're going to get kicked out." Selphie sighed.

"Just act like we don't know them." Kairi gave a smile. The good thing about the movies was that it was dark, so she didn't feel too awkward.

A/N: Yeah so that is a plot hole, having Advent Children in there, but I couldn't resist. Plus only Sora, Kairi and Riku would know about Cloud so...yeah. That's my only plot hole. As to the part two and three things, that's only for this chapter, because I couldn't decide if it was to long or not.

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