stage:
puppy love
we were only four back then

oo1 ; introduction
kaiora

"Kairi, this is Sora." Her mother pulls the small, redhead towards a brunet boy. Unwillingly, her lips parted to say hi. "Nice to meet you, Sora." There was a grumble from the boy, as his mother pushed him to the girl.

Looking at her, Sora crossed his arms. "It's nice to meet you, too, Kairi." –I can't believe I'm stuck with her all summer. She's all girly in her pink, it's ew!-

-What if he has cooties?- The girl thought, and gasped. –I want chicken pox.- The boy said to himself, looking down at her with disgust.

"Go play now! Shoo! Mommy has some matters to talk to with Mr. and Mrs. Miyagi, alright dear?" Sora's mom nudged her son slightly, and turned to the Miyagi's. "I see they're getting along quite well, Mrs. Sanwa."

Kairi's mother had pushed the two outside. –I'm going to be sick.- Sora said to himself, and headed over to a tree, climbing up it, to find the redhead following him. –That'll show him I can do everything better than him!- The girl though happily.

Being a girl, and in gymnastics, she headed up the tree with ease, occasionally stopping to look at him, as if she were taunting him. The boy decided it was boring and slid down back onto the ground.

One false move, Kairi slipped, and fell down from the branches, to land on something extremely soft.

"Hello, Kairi." The brunet managed to say under her weight. "Hello, Sora." Kairi replied in a strained voice, embarrassed, standing up and brushing at her skort.

Blowing a raspberry at her, he started laughing as Kairi snapped, "I hate you, Sora Sanwa!"

o74 ; are you challenging me?
roxette

The brunette girl panted as she caught up to her best friend, tackling him down. "Tag! You're it Roxas!" She got up, and started running. "I bet you that you can't catch me, Roxas!" Olette said, throwing her head back.

"Is that a challenge?" The blonde boy replied, running after her. "Maybe!" She yelled back, laughing. "And I accept!" They were out of breath, but kept running, because the simple fact was: They were kids, kids never get tired.

Soon, Roxas had caught up to her, as they sped downhill. Tapping her shoulder, they fell. Instinctively, the blonde put his arms around his best friend, their lips smashed together.

"I guess I win!" Roxas covered, couldn't help blushing as he helped his best friend up. "I guess so." Then, the ice cream truck music came within range. "Hey look! The ice cream man!" The brunette pointed at the white car driving slowly down the street. "I'll race you!" Roxas said.

"Are you challenging me?" A smile came to her face as he replied, "Yes."

Sweet, childish days weren't complete without your best friend daring you to do something stupid.

o81 ; pen and paper
namiku

It was really a coincidence that they would meet. Actually, the way they met was very odd. "You stapled my papers wrong!" A silver haired boy slammed papers on her desk, scaring the artist.

Startling the blonde, her hand jerked and ruined the picture she was working on. "What's you're problem?" Her sister backed her up, snapping at the boy. "Kairi…" Naminé pleaded, reaching out to tug onto her sister's hand.

"She stapled my papers wrong; do I have to repeat that?" Riku retorted, as the artist simply took the papers out of his hands, and with one swift motion, removed the staple with her scissors.

Walking up to the teacher's desk, the blonde asked to borrow the stapler, and rearranged the papers, stapled them again, very neatly, headed back to Riku, and shoved the papers into his hands.

"Here." Her voice was soft, as the fifth grader sunk back down onto her desk, crumbled the drawing he had ruined, and started on a new one. "T-thanks." Riku's voice was surprised. "Your welcome." The girl replied simply, eyes glued onto her drawing.

After a while, Kairi was dragged away by Sora, who claimed there was 'something cool', probably a dead worm. "What are you drawing?"

There was no reply for a long while. "It's a heart." She replied, her pencil drawing fine lines on the paper, showing a large heart with a crack down the middle.

"That doesn't look right." Riku said, looking over at her picture, frowning. Without a warning, he took the paper, and a pen. Erasing the jag down the middle, he drew, with a black pen, something that seemed like someone had taped the heart together with scotch tape.

Sliding the paper down back to her desk, he said, "That looks much better." Standing up, he left a very confused Naminé looking down at the heart that got taped together by Riku.

memos ; introduction is actually something i have planned for recherché, so it's a small preview. it was kinda based off of 'this is my idea' from the movie, swan princess.
are you challenging me? is just something that danced around into my mind. naïve kid fluff between roxas and olette always make me smile.
pen and paper, well, i have no comment for this one except this: it was so random, and i was inspired by something that happened to this eighth grade couple in my school. she stapled his papers wrong.

random dedications :
kaiora – for perfect sorceress, the biggest kaiora fan i know
roxette – this is for ivy, because she loves them just as much as i do
namiku – dedicated to akemi-chan, because she adores namiku