Disclaimer: (grumble grumble) Anyone stupid enough to think that the creator of something would be writing fanfics ought to jump off a cliff somewhere...or, something...
Although, Maki Murakami does make doujinshi for her own manga...hmm, something to think about...
A/N: Their ages are different, because I said so, actually because I wanted to make them a little immature, so here are their ages for this: everyone is eleven except Riku is twelve, Sephiroth's like fourteen, and Wakka...should die. No really, Wakka is fifteen or something...I dunno...
And you know, I've never ever seen a KH fic where they've used honorifics on each other. I don't know why that is, but I'm gunna. Me likies honorifics. Theys fun. AND I DON'T CARE HOW OOC THEY ARE! BWAHAHAHAHA! -cough cough-
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Riku sighed. It was a beautiful day outside, so why was he so depressed? "I miss all my old friends..."
He stared out the window at the park on the other side of the road, watching all the kids play happily.
He sighed again miserably.
"Riku! It's a lovely afternoon! What are you doing still sitting by that window?" His mother scolded. "Go and introduce yourself to some of the neighbor kids, I'm sure you'll make new friends in no time!"
"But, I don't wanna make NEW friends...I liked my OLD ones!" Riku uncharacteristically whinned.
"Oh, tough shit! Go!" She said, already pushing him out the door. She slammed and locked it behind him.
With nothing better to do, Riku slowly headed across the street grumbling about how evil his mother had become over the past few weeks.
"Um, hi."
Riku turned to see a blonde boy staring up at him. "I...I'm Tidus...wanna be friends?" he asked shyly.
"Okay." The older shrugged, and the boy grinned. "GREAT! Come, come play!"
Tidus dragged Riku over to the swings where two other children sat. "This is Selphie-chan," he said, pausing at the girl on the left, wearing a yellow dress. He then turned to the boy sitting next to her, "and this is Ansem-kun!"
"Hi," said Selphie and Ansem in unison.
"Uh, yeah, hi." Riku frowned. He still wasn't too keen with the idea of making new friends yet.
Tidus took ahold of Riku's shirt sleeve and turned him facing the rest of the grounds. "See the kid way in the back, under the tree? That's Ansem's brother Sephiroth-san. And other there," he continued, pointing at a retarded-looking old redhead, turning Riku slightly, "that's Wakka. He's kinda the 'village idiot', so to speak. Don't talk to him." Riku nodded. "And, let's see, there's Cloud-kun..." Tidus told him, pointing to another blonde kid digging in the sand. "And, well, they're not here right now, but there's also..." Tidus sighed lovingly before continuing, "...Sora-kun..." He immediately snapped out of it. "Oh, and, uh, his sister, Kairi."
Riku looked at the younger boy funny for a minute, but then shrugged it off. He looked all around him to make sure he could remember everyone's names. /Let's see...he's Tidus...and I know he said the blonde kid's name is Cloud...and the kid under the tree...staring at Cloud...in a kinda scary way...is Sephiroth...and the ugly NOT-kid is 'steer clear' Wakka...and, um, the girl on the swing is Selphie...huh, she's the only girl here...and the boy next to her...who is also staring...at me...scary-like...is Ansem...is that it? Oh, wait...there's also--/
"SORA!" Tidus' scream interupted Riku's thoughts. Riku turned around and his breath caught in his throat. He saw a boy with wild brown hair and a big grin on his face. He wore a semi-baggy pinkish-purple shirt that kinda hung off his shoulders, and semi-tight light-brownish three-quarter-length pants. He had a black bag slung over his shoulder, and was jogging towards them happily.
/That's...Sora.../ Riku couldn't believe it. He was beautiful. /Wait, WHAT/ Riku was half disgusted with himself. Since when did he like guys?
"Sora-Sora!" Tidus interupted his thoughts once again. The blonde boy promptly jumped on the other, causing them both to fall, Tidus on top of Sora.
This, for some unforseeable reason, made Riku very jealous.
Sora paid no mind to the boy on top of him. Rather, he turned all his attention to Riku. "Who...?"
"OH! Um, Sora-kun, this is...uh..." Tidus thought for a minute, got off of the other boy, then went over to the older. "You know what? You never told me your name!"
"Oh, uh, Riku." Riku's face flushed for a second, but he didn't know why.
"Oh, this is Riku!" Tidus said, turning to Sora, as if he didn't hear Riku say it himself.
Appearantly not, as it seemed Sora had waited for Tidus' reply.
Sora got up finally, dusting himself off, and fixed blue eyes with green, "Um, well, nice to meet you Riku! I'm Sora!" He said in a cheery way, which kinda reminded him of Tidus.
"Where's Kairi?" Selphie spoke for the first time (kinda).
"Oh, um, Kairi's sick..." Sora said. Selphie looked worried, but no one else really seemed to care. "Oh no, that's just awful!"
"Uh, yeah, whatever. Anyway, SORA-KUN YOU ARE BACK! ME SO HAPPY!" Tidus screamed in a really shrill high pitched voice. No one other than poor Riku seemed to be bothered by it. Tidus ran up and glomped Sora really tightly like he hadn't seen him in years, and Sora just patted the other boy on the head.
"Here, Tidus-kun, I brought you a present!" The slightly blonder one jumped back and squealed with delight as the more-brown-in-color haired boy grinned brightly again and reached into his black bag. A mysterious case of jealousy began twirling around in Riku's stomach. Tidus didn't deserve to be called '-kun' by Sora-kun! Then, Riku almost smacked himself. /What is WRONG with me, I just met these people/
"Riku-san, daijoubu ka?" Asked a slightly worried-looking Ansem. "You look lost in thought."
"Uh, yeah, I'm fine." Riku suddenly felt embarrased. How long had he been standing there staring like and idiot?
"HEY EVERYONE!"
Riku blinked. /You know, Tidus should be in charge of breaking me out of concentration./
"SORA-KUN IS BACK!" That call had alerted the others who had not noticed the boy's recent appearance, or the other boy's earlier shouting, and they came running. Their first questions were "who the heck is that?" but then went to "ooh ooh what'd'ja bring me?"
After lots of talking, Riku found out Sora's family had gone on vacation, thus the presents and numerous glomps from Tidus. Kairi, whoever she was, caught a cold and was sick in bed. A few of them seemed...relieved?...at that. /Uh, do they not like her or something/
Riku, again lost in his thoughts, was again staring at Sora...and Sora noticed. "Um, Riku? Are you okay?"
/Stupid/ he mentally smacked himself/stop doing that/ "Uh-yeah-fine."
Sora seemed to buy it as he flashed a bright smile and said, "Okay, so, you're new here? Wanna come hang out with us more often? We meet here everyday around...um, noon? Yeah."
This made the older's heart feel all warm and fuzzy-ish. "Sure!"
"But, it's getting late now. Sorry guys that I didn't get here earlier, I should probably go."
This news made Riku's warm and fuzzy heart start to sink. "Oh..." then he said, "I should probably go too."
"Okay, bye everybody!" Sora waves and starts to jog away.
A chorus of random "bye"s go around as everyone else decides to leave too. Returning home, Riku suddenly feels happy that he moved here. "So? Didn't you have fun?" his mother asked him.
"Yeah," he said, "I made alot of new friends."
She beamed. "See? I told you you would!"
He snuck away to his room, and said to himself, "...I loved every minute of it."