What if Aaron Warner's sunshine daughter fell for Kenji Kishimoto's grumpy son?
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This fanfic takes place almost 20 years after Believe me. Aaron and Juliette had a Daughter named Emmaline Leila Warner. Kenji and Nazeera had a son named Kai Kishimot...
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"Emma?" Atlas repeated, snapping me out of the haze I was in from the moment I left Kai's room, letting Atlas take me to his, sitting in the edge of the bed as he stood before me.
"Hm? What?" I blinked, fisting the sheets of his bed with my hands on my sides, watching him sigh.
"I asked you what happened?" He said, "were you crying? Where's Kai—"
"I just came out of Kai's room," I said through a sharp breath, gritting my teeth and looking away. Maybe I should've just headed to my room.
I can't even hear his name without feeling my heart twist, and I still haven't processed what happened. It was so fast, so sudden. I felt like I was trapped in some fever dream, like this didn't really happen. Before Atlas could ask anything else, his door snapped open, making both of us jump in place and snap our heads up, seeing Jett the same moment her eyes fell on me, closing the door behind her as she rushed to me.
"Hey," she sat next to me as I blinked, "what—"
"Oh, okay," Atlas tilted his head at her until she looked up, giving her a shrug, "sure, just storm in and out of here whenever you want— no, you know what," he shot her a fake smile, "just move in, why don't you? Make it easier since you're so comfortable being here a lot—"
"I'm here for Emma," she interrupted him with a roll of her eyes, "I got out of my room and saw Ivan, he told me that she looked out of it and that she's with you—" she whipped her head back to me, "what happened? Why didn't you just come to me?"
Emma.
Emma.
Emma.
Everyone keeps calling me that. Ivan, Atlas, Jett... but I could still hear him. I couldn't get his voice out of my head. I felt like I was stuck in a loop, his harsh tone echoing endlessly in my head, wrapping around all my thoughts that wanted to explode, tightening around them like a rope until I felt like I was being suffocated, drowning but this time with no control.
"Kai..." I cleared my throat, taking in short breaths, "kicked me out."
"What?" Jett and Atlas snapped at the same time, jerking their heads back like I just slapped them.
"We had, um," I swallowed, tucking my hair behind my ears as I let out a shaky breath, trying to hold myself together, "an argument. He told me to go away, that he couldn't deal with me right now."
"Why would he do that?" Jett tilted her head in confusion, and without warning, tears welled up again, my chest tightening as I felt my head become heavy, trying to swallow the lump in my throat.
"Because I messed up," I heard my voice tremble, curling my fingers until I felt my nails dig into my palm to the point where they hurt, "I was trying to help him, but... I think I made things worse. He's been having these nightmares, and I—"
