When you were little, did you want to grow up really fast? Did you want to be a ballerina? Or a fireman? Did you want to be just like Daddy or Mommie? Hammering nails into wood, baking a cake in your little easy-bake oven, actually totally ruining the whole thing but still presenting your master-piece to them; trying to be just like them...Do you remember?

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Kingdom hearts or its characters.

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Somewhere, deep inside,

we all still long to chase butterflies

dance in the flower beds

and sing to the stars

- unknown

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Give it time

"Nuren! Hey Nuren!"

Nuren looked up from her grocery list, thinking she had heard someone calling her.

Her husband bumped into her with the buggy, not seeing she had stopped.

"Sorry about that, love." he grinned apologetically.

"Its alright, I just thought I heard..."

"Nuren!"

She turned around just in time to see an old friend throw her arms around her.

"A... Ami!"

"Yup, Its me! I was trying to catch up with you, but you were getting away from me! Havn't seen you and Byron since collage! How've you been?"

Nuren laughed, crinkling up her green eyes as she brushed back her extremely curly, chocolate brown hair. She remembered her friends' bubbly personality.

"Great, you?"

Ami giggled. "Never better! Hey Byron!"

"Hi Ami. You still havn't calmed down a bit, have you? Whew." He wiped imaginary sweat from his forehead.

"Nope!" Her eyes were drawn to Byrons' blond, unevenly cut hair that grew down to his cheekbones.

"Wow, you've let your hair grow out!"

Byron shrugged. "Eh, yeahI guess."

Suddenly Ami realized there was a little someone sitting in the front part of the buggy.

"Oh-ho who is this, Jr?" She looked back at her two friends for conformation, then turned back to the little boy after they nodded.

"And who are you, cutie?"

" 'm Sorwa!"

"Well Sora, how old are you?"

His bright blue eyes narrowed and he pouted in concentration as he held up a pudgy hand, trying to hold up two fingers while keeping the other three down.

"This many!"

"Wow, your two?"

He gave her a brilliant smile in answer as he nodded furiously, spiky hair bouncing.

"What wild hair..." she remarked, more to herself than to Nuren or Byron. They just smiled, knowing she meant no offence.

Ami cocked her head as she glanced back, smiling at her old friends.

"Well its' easy to tell where your kid gets his looks from. Your brown hair and Byron's blue eyes and smile. And both of you have always been follicly challenged." She teased, flipping back her own silky auburn hair.

"Hey what d'ya mean! just because..."

"My hair is naturally curly!" They both protested at the same time.

Ami laughed. "Right..'naturally curly'...or have you forgotten how much hair gel you used to use and how long you took with the hair straightener..."

"Aww... c'mon..."

Sora took in all this as he blinked his big blue eyes.

"Daddy who's dis?"

"This is Ami, Sora. She used to go to school with Mama and I."

"Whoops! that's right, I never did introduce myself did I?"

"No you were too busy picking on us!" Nuren teased.

"Hey..."

Byron picked Sora up out of the buggy and held him in his arms. "Sora, show Ami your muscles!"

"Yeah, show me!"

Sora grinned only as a two year-old can and held his pudgy arms up, stiffening his whole body in the effort to show off his 'muscles'.

"Whew, look at 'em! Pretty soon you'll be able to pin Dad to the mat huh?" She praised him as she knew Sora expected her to.

"Yeah, 'm gonna be strong like daddy!"

"Thats right, you are!" Byron grinned.

"I didn't even know when you and Byron got married!" Ami said to Nuren as Byron swung his small son up in the air. Sora giggled.

"Yeah but you moved right after graduation, right? I never did get your address, so I couldn't invite you. I would've you know."

"Yeah I know."

"Did you move back?"

"Mmm hmm... last month. The new place just wasn't worth it. My mom said they'd built a new daycare down here or something."

"Yeah, we're planning on putting Sora in there. I decided to go back to work..."

3 weeks later

"Sora will be in the three year old room, since he would be the oldest in the two's. He would have been promoted anyway, so we'll put him in here. Is that ok?" Mrs Leslie, the daycare director asked.

"Sure, its ok." Nuren and Byren nodded.

"Sora, we have to leave now 'kay? We have to get to work. Be good for your teacher."

The little boy nodded solemnly. He would be good.

"Give me a kiss then." Sora stood on tip-toe to give his mama a kiss.

"See ya later today, Sora." Byron ruffled the spiky hair.

" 'kay."

Sora watched them walk out the class-room door, feeling lonely. He looked around at the other kids. They were building, playing with puzzles, dress-up... He looked for someone to play with.

"Sora, would you like to color?" The teacher asked.

He nodded. She led him over to the drawing table where some other children were coloring. Sora sat down in front of a boy intently scribbling a tree on a sheet of paper.

" 'm Sorwa. Who're you?"

The boy blinked his aqua green eyes, surprised as he had been so busy on coloring in his tree that he didn't even realize someone was sittingby him.

"oh... 'm Riku."

"Can I've a red color pease?"

"Ok." Riku nodded,his silver hair swinging as he nodded and handed Sora a red crayon.

Nuren and Byren stood outside of the glass mirror that allowed parents to watch their children from the hallway.

"Do you think we're making Sora grow up too fast? Maybe we should've just waited till he starts school when he's five?" Nuren asked Byren, suddenly anxious.

"Naw. Look at 'em. He's doing just great. Looks like he just made his first friend in pre-school." Byren gestured toward the window.

"I know... I just don't want him to grow up too fast."

"Don't worry. There's a LONG time yet before that." He laughed.

"Yeah..." Nuren chewed her lip. "I know..."

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Riku: You... made me a chibi... o0

Sora: 'pudgy? big blue eyes?' what do you think we are? some kind of huggable plushies?

Me: hmm.. dont care about you Sora, but Riku is a huggable plushie... drool

Riku: ech!

Me: Well I told you there'd be another story didn't I? ahh... your just so lovable Riku!

Sora: eh? whada bout me?

Me: ah I dont care about you. Your just here. I'll leave you for the rabid fangirls. Riku is taken though.

Riku: WHAT?

Sora: you'd do that to me? TT