AN: I've already got everything planned out for this story, and it's fairly short. I'll write the other four chapters and post them up as soon as I can. The first part occurs when Sora and the gang are very young. You know in the game when you see flashbacks of them as cute little kids?
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New Playmates
Seagulls flew across the pale blue sky, and the morning sun shined down brightly upon Destiny Islands. A young boy with long white hair ran across the warm, yet soft sand and nimbly climbed up a ladder. He headed down the wooden walkway at the top and entered the small house of his best friend.
"Sora, you awake?" he said from the doorway. No answer. "Sora!" he said a little louder. He went inside and pushed aside the thin cloth covering the window. Sunlight filtered through it, and he heard a slight moan from behind him. But that was it.
Now irritated, he went over to the bed and tugged at the blanket till it came off. There lay his spiky-haired friend sleeping peacefully on a wonderful day. The blanket didn't make much of a difference though. He roughly shook his friend's shoulder until the signs of blissful sleep left him.
Sora looked at him sleepy-eyed and yawned, stretching his arms.
"Aw man, Riku. Watcha do that for? I was having such a nice dream. About this new kid that came to our island. We all had so much fun playing with him! He was really cool and-"
"Sora, you lazy bum. That's what I came to tell you about."
Sora rubbed his eye. "What?"
"We do have someone new to play with!" he announced. Sora's eyes brightened up at this, and any thoughts of sleep instantly vanished from his playful mind.
Riku held up two fingers. "And not just one, but two. Two girls our age." Sora jumped out of bed and pulled Riku's arm.
"Come on, let's go meet them right now!"
The boys raced down the walkway and literally jumped off the ladder. At the end of the beach, on the dock, were two forms dangling their legs off the edge.
"There they are!" Riku exclaimed. They both stopped in front of the new arrivals, huffing from running all the way. The girls turned to look at them with genuine curiosity. One was taller than the other, with auburn hair in short two braids and bright green eyes. The second girl was pretty with short maroon hair in a stylish pattern.
"Hi!" Sora said cheerfully, with a wide grin on his face. The shorter one giggled. He smiled back sheepishly. "Um…what's so funny?" Even Riku was laughing now, though he tried to suppress it. "Hey, somebody tell me!" Sora demanded, annoyed.
"You're in your pajamas, smart one," the taller girl said, eyeing him up and down. Sora looked down at himself.
"Oh." Then he added, "Yeah, so what?" Riku stepped, in attempt to make the conversation go better.
"So what are your names?" he asked. "I'm Riku- he jerked a thumb at his best friend- and this is my pal Sora."
"It's nice to meet you. I'm Kairi," the maroon-haired girl said, jumping off the dock. The taller girl did the same but jumped with more energy, landing farther. "My cousin here is-" she started.
"I'm Rina," the girl interrupted, holding out her hand. Sora looked at it, bewildered. He didn't know what to do and was about to give her a sideways high five, until Riku reached out and grabbed it. He shook her hand up and down, like he had seen the adults do.
"Show off," Sora muttered bitterly to him.
"Hey, it's not my fault you don't know any manners."
"Yeah, whatever." He crossed his arms and frowned. Kairi laughed at him once again, and Rina glanced at her.
"Don't let it bother you, Sora," she said smiling wryly. "I don't care much for manners anyway. But if you like, Kairi can teach you everything about formality." She pushed Kairi up with one hand.
"Why me?" Kairi asked confused, looking around with innocent eyes. Her older cousin chose to ignore her.
"Really?" Sora asked, excited. "I'll start taking lessons right away!"
"She was just joking Sora," Riku pointed out. Sora looked down in disappointment and rubbed his brown head.
"Oh…" He soon forgot what he was so disappointed about. "There's a secret cave behind the waterfall, covered by some trees." Riku looked at him like he was nuts. He nudged Sora in the side.
"Don't change the subject!" he whispered to him. His cheery friend continued on anyway.
"Wanna go check it out?" he asked eagerly.
"Hmph. A secret cave, huh?" Rina said smugly, trying to hide her curiosity. "All right, let's go then."
"Okay," Kairi agreed without any hassle. The two girls followed Sora as he ran across the sandy yellow beach.
Riku stayed behind.
He watched the sparkly blue water in front of him. It stretched on for miles and miles, as far as the human eye could see. The crystal clear water called out to him, its sweeping waves begging. A slight breeze whipped through his hair, and he felt a longing for something he didn't know of. Something...out there...
Rina stopped and looked back, noticing that they were missing someone.
"Riku!" she called out. "Are you coming or not?" He turned to look at her. A peculiar expression was on his face.
"Yeah...just hold on a sec." He took one last look at the sea. Rina watched him, and followed his sight to the water. She saw how he stared at the never ending depths of the seductive sea. There was something restless about him...
Fingers snapped in front of her face and she blinked, startled.
"Coming?" he asked smiling, with humor in his voice.
"Of course!" They headed after Sora and Kairi, running to catch up with them; completely unaware of what the future held.
AN: So what do you think? Any suggestions?
