Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts.

Perpetrators of this Abuse: The community 50scenes on livejournal.

Notes: ...As if I didn't have enough on my plate, what with Riku-Style and Personal Soundtrack.

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Saturnine

Kairi puts the papers down with a look of disbelief.

"Lead poisoning? How did you get lead poisoning?"

"..." Riku shrugs noncommitedly.

She presses her fingers to his forehead and worries, forehead wrinkling slightly.

He takes her hand gently and places it back at her side. "I'm going to be fine. Don't worry."

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The next day, without looking where he's going, Riku finds Kairi at the other side of the school with Sora and calls, "Kairi!"

He grins as they turn to him.

"I don't have lead poisoning! It was a mistake!"

She runs across the quad and tackles him. "Oh, thank god! I was worried about you!"

Sora drifts over confusedly. "Um..."

"What are you waiting for?" Riku demands, holding one arm out for his friend and holding Kairi with the other.

The brown-haired boy tries: "...Yay, you don't have lead poisoning?"

"Get over here!"

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Notes: I saw not one, but two meanings for saturnine when I looked it up on a dictionary site. Two! Whole! Meanings!

1. Gloomy; taciturn; sullen; melancholy.

2. The state in which one is suffering from the effects of lead poisoning.

I sense your confusion. I sense a question starting with "Why" and ending with "did you pick that definition?"

I sense all of those things and to that I say:

Of course I picked the lead poisoning scare! It's Riku! It's Kairi! It's the ambiguity of the word 'saturnine!' Sure, you could write about Riku being melancholy, or even Kairi being melancholy, but this is the person who take totally serious-sounding prompts and twists them into crack because she is crazy like that! Leradny! Raedyn L., occasionally!

I have crunched the numbers and forty percent of all my cumulative writing about Riku and Kairi is crack. It is statistics for dummies, people. It is my own twisted brain crying out to me to please, break the tension somehow because I am not a drama queen and writing like that all the time exhausts me, completely. I need a release! It manifests itself on the other side of the spectrum--incredibly ludicrous crack! And usually it's about Riku's hair! (???)

Have you noticed that? Check both my previous stories to see! You'll find it! Seriously!

It is the unwillingness of my conscience as a writer to succumb to a cliche cop-out on my first prompt from my first challenge about a pairing I am absolutely crazy about! My OTP to end all OTPs!!

RIKUKAIRI DOES NOT DESERVE CLICHE, DAMMIT! BECAUSE IT IS NOT A CLICHE PAIRING!

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...I am very nervous about writing fifty chapters.

Excuse me while I go and hide from my mostly-empty prompt list.