Well, guess who's back?
Riku: Who're you and why are you messing with our lives?
Really? I'm pretty sure I've messed with you guys before. . . anyways! Here is a new Rion/RikuShi story! I really feel like this pairing needs more love, so I'll give it to them!
Disclaimer: Fanfiction. Only a fan, only fiction. Well, it would be fiction to say that I owned Kingdom Hearts. . .
Tintinnabulation
[tin-ti-nab-yuh-ley-shuhn]
N. The ringing or sound of bells
"Here kitty, kitty!" Sora stretched his arms above his head with his fingertips pointing at a particularly high branch of a tree. "You can come down." Sora continued to coax the cat down from its perch.
"Meow." The feline stared at Sora then reached a white paw out towards him, pawing at the tree bark.
"That's it! Good kitty!" Sora widened his arms, ready to catch the cat.
"This is so stupid." Kairi stared the blue-eyed boy in disbelief.
"Yeah, sure." Riku kept his eyes on his spiky-haired friend for a few more moments before rolling his eyes. "Hey, Kai." he leaned towards the girl. "How much time do we have to get to school?"
"Let's see..." Kairi glanced at her watch quickly, noticing the closeness of the dreaded time of 8:30 AM. She looked away then looked at the watch again and widened her eyes, taking in the urgency of their needed arrival. "We need to get going!" She yelled in surprise.
"Aw, come on!" Sora watched as the cat retreated to a higher branch, not paying attention to his friend's warning.
"Do you think he's listening to us?" Riku whispered to Kairi.
"Honestly? No."
"Eh, I don't have a problem with that," Riku said. " See ya, Sora!" He adjusted one strap of his backpack on his shoulder and continued walking towards the school.
"Hey! Wait up!" Sora slid his bag onto his shoulder before running to catch up with his two best friends.
"It's not my fault that you're so slow," Riku said airily as he quickened his pace, presumably only to annoy Sora.
"Well it's your fault that that cat is still stuck in a tree!" Sora gestured wildly behind him, pointing to a tall oak tree. Riku opened his mouth to argue as he walked farther away from his friend.
"I didn't do anything."
"Maybe that's the proble-"
"Shut up." Riku and Sora's eyes widened at Kairi's sudden input in their argument. Kairi looked over her shoulder at Sora. "Don't worry Sora, you're not slow, but we do need to hurry up. We don't want Mr. Hojo to get mad at us for being late."
"Heh, I'm not worried about my speed." Sora jogged up next to Kairi and slung his arms behind his head, grinning his impossibly wide Sora grin. "I'm kinda worried about the cat, though." He dropped his arms from behind his head and looked down at his oversized shoes sheepishly
"Don't worry." Kairi reached up to ruffle Sora's hair. "That cat's gonna be fine. Come on, I'll race you to school." She took off running up the hill, her school bag and red hair whipping behind her.
"Hey!" Sora ran after her, his eyes sparkling. As they traveled further from his sight, Riku started to sprint to catch up with.
"Am I a part of this race?" Riku yelled after Kairi.
"No, your legs are too long!" Kairi said as she ran faster. "It wouldn't be fair!"
Indeed, Riku's legs have gotten considerably long, along with the rest of his limbs. Growing still taller since their last adventure, he now stands at 183 cm (about 6 ft).
"Life's not fair! I'm gonna win," Riku said as he started to sprint towards the school. He quickly passed both Kairi and Sora, disappearing out of their vision.
"Well that idiot's gone." Kairi slowed to a walk and waited for Sora to do the same.
"You were trying to get rid of him?" Sora asked her as he stopped walking and looked her with his head cocked in curiosity.
"Ah, Sora. So innocent," Kairi said. She eyed Her companion with an unidentifiable fervor. No one can blame her. Her friend had grown a bit as well, though not as much Riku, but enough so that his feet don't look awkwardly large on him anymore. What mostly grew was his muscles. He had lost some of his wiriness after eating more regularly (who knows what kind of junk they had to eat while they were away) and was more toned after doing some heavy lifting for his mom's friend, who ran a delivery service. The islanders sent strange things to one another. One of the less extraordinary things was a 150 pound anvil made of pure mythril.
"Okay," Sora said. He shrugged Kairi's questionable words off and continued walking towards the school.
"...if only It was," Kairi whispered to herself as Sora walked farther and farther away. She stayed still for a moment and only stared at her feet and Sora's voice called her out of her stupor.
"Hey Kairi! We better get going! It's 8:28!" Sora yelled. He was standing on top of a hill that Kairi was at the bottom of, in the middle of a palm tree-lined road.
Kairi started to run up the hill but to catch up to Sora, not eliminate distance from the school. "Don't worry!" She called to Sora as she ran towards him. "School starts at 8:45 today!"
"What?"
"Yeah, there's been a delay because the convenience store down the street from the school was robbed." Kairi settled herself next to Sora, who was frozen in shock.
"But shouldn't we go and help?" Sora began flapping his arms at Kairi in panic. "And what about Riku? He could be in trouble or worse, waiting for us! Alone!"
He needs to get his priorities straight. Kairi looked at the boy with exasperation. "He'll be fine, the police probably finished up already, and it's not that bad for him to be alone. He can handle himself."
"Nuh-uh!" Sora looked at Kairi with a wide-eyed serious expression. "The fangirls!" He whispered harshly.
"Fangirls?" Kairi tested skeptically.
"Yeah!" Sora gave one hard nod. "Ever since school started, all these girls started chasing him and crowding around him and swarming him, even ones we don't know. It's scary, Kairi!" He was now directly in front of Kairi and clutching her by her slender shoulders in fear at the thought of it.
"I doubt that fangirls could do that much damage." Kairi slowed peeled the spiky-haired boy off her while trying to conceal a growing blush.
Sora crossed his arms and pouted as he turned away from Kairi. "You'll see."
"You weren't kidding." Kairi and Sora found their silver-headed friend cowering in terror in a tree in the courtyard of the school. "Which reminds me." Kairi turned to Sora. "Why have I never seen these fangirls in action?"
"They mostly stay away when you're with Riku because your dad's the mayor."
"Ah."
Riku poked his head down out of the foliage. "Are they gone yet?" He inquired.
"Yep, I think so, oh wait!" Kairi paused. "There's one over there!" She pointed at a random teacher.
"Eek!" Riku gave a girlish squeal and hid himself back in the tree.
"Relax, Riku. I was just kidding. Besides, I highly doubt Ms. Finn is one of your fangirls." Kairi watched as the blue haired woman walked into the building.
"The biology teacher?" Riku stuck his head out once more. "I actually think that she is the staff supervisor of my fanclub."
Kairi let out a strangled scoff. "You have a fanclub? This just keeps getting better and better."
"Yeah!" Sora nodded furiously. "It's an official school club!"
"Sora?"
"Yeah?"
"Not helping." Riku remained in the tree until the warning bell rang.
"Riku, come on." Kairi tapped on the tree with her fist twice. "We need to get to class."
"Nope," Riku called from the treetop. "Not until the coast is clear."
"Riku there's no one here besides us-"
"Mr. Hikari!"
"-and Mr. Aki," Kairi finished as the heavyset teacher stomped towards their trio.
"Mr. Hikari! I advise for you to get to class if you want your afternoon to be free." Mr. Aki shook his finger violently at Sora. "And you!" He turned to Kairi. "I don't care who your father is, you'll still get detention if you are late to class. As for you, Mr. Gallagher." Mr. Aki tilted his head up. "How many times have I told you not to climb on school property?"
"I believe this is the first time, sir." A muffled voice came from the leaves.
Mr. Aki stood dumbfounded at Riku's response as he remembered admonishing a silver haired youth at least three times. These youths happened to be Riku's cousins, Kadaj, Yazoo and Loz, but all kids looked the same to the aging teacher. "Oh, just come down there!" He pulled at Riku's uniform sleeve.
"Aah!" Riku tumbled out of the tree onto the grass. "I'm good!" He scrambled to his feet and stood up next to Sora.
Mr. Aki gave them all a wide-eyed glare and turned his body to face each one of them. "Don't let me catch you out of class again."
"Yes, sir."
"The square root of. . ." The math teacher droned on and on even though the majority of students heard nothing but white noise.
"And that's how-"
RING! RING!
The bell rang before the teacher could finish, and students filled the doorway before she could think of giving homework. The clock read three o'clock and everyone wanted out of the school and into the permanent summer paradise of Destiny Islands. Riku was at the forefront of the struggle to get out of the doorframe, and he forced himself forward out of the crowd but onto the floor.
This can't be good.
"Is that him?"
"Oh my god, is that Riku?"
"He's so hot!"
"Should we go say hi?"
"I kinda want to touch him." Whispers surged forth from many girls as more saw him sprawled out on the floor.
Uh, oh. Not good! Gotta get out of here...
"Hello, ladies!" Riku bolted up on his feet, pulling his schoolbag up with him.
"Hi, Riku!" All the girls answered him in unison, creepily enough. Giggles followed, and not in unison, one may add.
"Yeah, nice day, isn't it?" Riku asked as slowly backed away from the large group of squealing girls. "Yeah, I think I'll go outside and enjoy it... Outside!" He broke into a run, sprinting down the hall.
"Where is he going?"
"Wait for me!"
The majority of the girls that were standing around him started to chase after Riku, with a few left behind, who probably weren't very interested in him anyway.
I need to find Sora and Kairi, Riku thought as he ran. There they are! He grabbed Sora's arm and pulled him from where he was talking with Kairi by his locker. Kairi followed closely behind him. He ran off campus and didn't stop until he reached downtown Destiny Islands, where he hid the three of them in an alley between shops.
"Whew." Riku let go of Sora. He placed his hands on his knees as he bent over to catch his breath. "Lost them."
"I'm guessing those are the fangirls you were talking about," Kairi said from where she was peeking around the corner of one of the buildings that they were hidden between. "Now I understand why they scare you so much."
"Shhh! Get back!" Riku pulled Kairi back from the corner of the building. "They might see you!"
"Oh, don't be silly! They've already left," Kairi said as she led the boys out of the alley. "See? Oh!" She looked at one of the shops that was beside them. "I think this was the convenience store that was robbed." She started to walk to the store. "I wonder why it's not closed..."
"Wait, Kairi!" Sora stumbled after.
Ding! Ding! A bell rang when Kairi opened the convenience store door. "Hey, there's Zell. Hi, Zell!" Kairi went and waved to Zell Dincht, a senior that went to the trio's school.
"Hey, Kairi." He waved back with one of his hands while he rested his head in the other.
Kairi walked up to the register. "What are you doing here so early?" Their school had only just let out.
"They needed all the adults that worked here somewhere, so I was the only one who could be here."
"Oh, right. Was it about the break in?" Kairi asked.
"Yeah. Do you know how fun it is to sit in a store for 7 hours and have absolutely no customers? Nobody's come here because of the break in. What do they think, that the robbers are hiding in the corner of the store?"
"Ah, that's okay. We're here. How about we buy something?" Kairi offered.
"That's great!" Zell's face lit up. "So, what're are you getting?"
"How about-"
Sora came up behind Kairi and interrupted her before she could speak. "Ice cream!"
"Why did you have to buy him hotdogs?" Sora whined to Kairi as she, Sora and Riku walked home with their ice cream. Kairi rolled her eyes.
"You know how much he likes hot dogs. Besides he didn't seem to be very happy."
"Okay." Sora pouted.
"Good." Kairi gave him suspecting look before looking straight ahead as they walked. "I don't know why
you're so upset," she stated after she took a lick of her Paopu ice cream bar. "It's not like I used your money to buy those hotdogs. Unless. . ." Kairi tried to conceal a sly smile. "Sora Hikari, don't tell me you're jealous." She pretended to gasp dramatically.
"What? No!" Sora laughed nervously. "Of course, I'm not jealous."
"Oh, really? Really?"
"Yeah, I'm not jealous at all! I was jealous!"
"Ha! You admitted it!" Kairi pointed at Sora, excited.
"No, I told you that I was jealous. Was. Past tense. In the past!" Sora defended himself.
"Ha, ha!" Kairi chuckles at Sora's dramatic tone. "Were you really that jealous?" She asked, playfully pushing him with her shoulder.
"Well, you don't usually buy things for me." Sora frowns.
"Hey, tell you what. Next chance I get, I will buy you some food."
"Good. How about tomorrow?" Sora suggests to Kairi.
"Tomorrow's good," Kairi agrees. "It's a date!" Immediately, she wanted to take back those three words, or at least the last one. Her cheeks started to redden. Did I just say date? Sora, however, just smiled back. Either he did not register her words, or didn't think of them in that context. Or maybe he liked the thought that he would go on a date with her. Suddenly, the two hear a retching noise coming from behind them. They look behind them to find Riku choking on his ice cream.
"Gross, you two." Riku coughs. "Get a room." Only then did Kairi realize how close she and Sora were standing. She tried to step away from Sora as discreetly as possible
"Oh, right. Riku, I didn't see you there. . ." Kairi tries to avert her eyes from Sora's confused and surprisingly cute face. "So. . . Riku, do you actually know what was stolen from the store?"
"Yeah. Really strange, Zell said that half of their lighters and bottled waters and pool toys were missing." Riku shrugs. "There's too much missing for them to actually think that everything was misplaced. But who would steal all that stuff? Broke college students wanting to throw a pool party? Kinda strange, if you ask me." He stops in front of a white house. "I'll see you guys." He waves and walks up to the house.
"Bye, Riku!" Sora and Kairi wave over their shoulders as they keep walking. "Oh! There's my house." Kairi veers to the left and towards a large mansion. "Walk me?" She asks Sora, smiling.
"S-sure." He follows her as she walks up the long driveway. She doesn't speak until reach the front double-doors.
"Don't forget about tomorrow, okay?" She opens one the doors and turns to face Sora in the doorway.
"I won't. And I'll make sure to tell Riku." He smiles before waving to Kairi and leaving.
"Yeah, Riku." Kairi's face falls as Sora turns away. She slowly closes the door, cursing her silver haired friend.
What do you think? The next chapter is coming soon, I already finished it! But I don't want to post it until I make any leeway on chapter 3. . .
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