I don't own Kingdom Hearts but...if they were willing to make a trade...

Chapter One

Riku was sitting on the paupu tree that he, Sora, and Kiari had often sat around as kids. He had only been gone for a year, yet so much had changed. When he told Sora nothing had changed he was lying, more to himself than to his friend. Kiari had run up to them, heavily panting, with a message in a bottle--it had the king's seal. Sora quickly pulled it out and after reading it over silently to himself, he read it out loud to his friends.

"Dear key bearers," he began boldly, "It's me, King Micky. Sorry to bug y'all to so soon after you got back, but we were gonna hold a festival for you guys here at Disney Castle. I think y'all are gonna have fun! P.S. I've got some people you might want to meet!"

Sora grinned stupidly and said, "Who would we want to meet? Riku, did you meet someone while you were in the darkness with the King?"

"What do you think?" replied the silver haired keybearer, "I was Zehanort for cryin' out loud!"

Sora and Kiari broke out into laughter simultaniously and Riku grinned at his friends. Riku found it funny that the King would send letter's via water when he had the gummi ship and e-mail.

"When do you think that their gonna come and pick us up?" asked Sora.

Kiari smacked him on the back of the head and took the note from his grasp. "P.S.S. I'll send Donald and Goofy with the gummi ship as soon as I get your reply." she read aloud. "Wow, mom's not gonna be happy when I tell her that." she said

"Why are you wining?" asked Sora, "You weren't gone for two years!"

Riku never knew their parents and he was always kind jelous of Kiari, even though they really didn't care much for her. One day Sora just wound up on the big island and started hanging out with a silver haired boy who had arrived in the same way. They lived their for three years before Kiari moved in.

"Hey, don't get all worked up, okay." said the girl slowly backing away and waving her arms to try and stop Sora before he got all worked up on some ridiculous rant.

The only thing was that there was only three feet of foot room and she soon fell off the island and into the ocean. Sora quikly threw off his shirt and dove in after her. The two began to laugh and swim in the warm water like kids, while Riku quietly watched them. He was still unable to escape the fact that the world on the other side of the 'Door to light' did seem like where he belonged. The darkness that once flowed through his veins still worried him, he was afraid that he would eventually become unable to hold it back. The sunset made him feel at ease, though.

"Hey guys," said Riku to his swimming friends, "Do you think that we should hurry up and send a reply?"

Sora and Kiari were too busy swimming and being loud to pay any attention. Riku decided that the only way for him to make them listen was to jump in as well. He took out his phone and dove in after them.

The silver haired teen grabbed the keyblade master and flipped him into the water head first shouting at the wine haired girl, "Get him, Ki!"

Kiari began to tickle the spikey haired kid wildly causing bubbles from his laughter coming up from his submerged mouth. After Riku and Kiari deecided that if they kept Sora underwater for much longer he would drown they picked him up out of the water. After breathing like he had never breathed a breath in his life he began to laugh.

"You guys got me good that time!" he said.

"It's rediculous that the keyblade master is so easy to take down." said Riku wryly.

"Oh yeah!" yelled Sora beginning to run at his older friend, "Let's just see how easy you are!"

Sora dashed at full force at Riku, seemingly unimpared by the fact that he was in the water and tried to tackle him. As Sora reached Riku, Riku tripped him and sent him face first into the sand under the shallow water.

"Dude, Sora, you've been off of the job for like, a week and you're already out of practice." said a confident Riku proudly looking at his work.

Before he could realize it, Kiari came rushing up from behind him and tackeled him to the ground. As she stood with hands on her hips, Sora grabbed her by the ankle and tripped her.

Rolling over the keyblade master said, "Still think I'm outa practice.?"

"Hey, that was a cheap shot!" shouted the girl in a pouty tone.

Riku began to laugh, "This is so stupid! We finally all get back together and we can't do anything but fight?"

Sora lunged at Riku, who grabbed him and gave him the noogie of his life.

"Hey, weren't you just complaing about the fighting?" asked Sora, almost crying of laughter.

"This isn't fighting, it's a noogie!" yelled Riku.

"Let's head back to town." said Kiari giggling, "We can get washed up and then go see a movie."

"Sound's good." said Riku helping Sora back to an upright position.

"I'm just gonna take some asprin." said Sora rubbing his head.

"7:30 at the mall?" suggested Kiari.

"Sounds...good..." replied Sora whose head was still in pain.

The trio boarded Riku, who lived alone on the island's boat and made the short trip back to the main island where Riku dropped them off and headed back to the island where they used to play as kids. It was 6:17, so he had a while to shower and change. He washed up and dressed in a pair of faded blue jeans and a black shirt with the heartless symbol, which he had adopted as his own, and a dark gray overcoat. He sat out on the porch of the house he had made from the old shed and watched as the sun made the rest of it's way below the horizon. With some time left before he had to go and meet his friends, Riku decidcided to go ahead and e-mail King Mickey.

At seven o'clock Riku made his way to his boat to and quikly sailed back to the main island.

Once he arrived, he met up with Sora, Kiari, Tidus, Selphie, and Wakka at the local movie theater. Sora went with Selphie and Kiari to see a chic-flic while Riku, Tidus, and Wakka went to see an ultra-violent action movie.

When the group met back up in the food court, Sora wouldn't stop complaining about how he had to go and see a movie with the girls, when everyone knew that he chose to to be with Kiari. After Tidus, Wakka, and Selphie went home for the night, the keyblade wielders sat around a table in the foodcourt.

"I sent an e-mail to the King." said Riku slurping his soda.

"When do you think they're gonna get here?" asked Kiari after taking a lick from her sea-salt ice cream.

Sora got a brain freeze after biting his ice cream and said, "I bet they'll be here in a week."

"Cool." said Riku shaking his soda only to hear that he had drunk it all.

"I'll send one telling them to land on the old island." said Kiari pulling out her phone and e-mailing the King.

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