Cherish Forever—First Meeting
Inspired by the characters of Kingdom Hearts
By romanticfor3ver
"What do you mean that we are going to stay at Destiny Islands for the entire of the school holidays? I thought that we were going to explore Wonderland."
"It's not safe; definitely not safe."
Riku and Sora were sitting together on the beach thinking about something to do for the school holidays. Absolutely nothing. There was absolutely nothing that they were able to do; Destiny Islands was terribly boring.
"What are you guys doing?" they turned around to find that Kairi was standing there with their breakfast. It was her turn to do the cooking and she wasn't happy at all.
"We're just talking about what we should do for the holidays."
"What are we going to do for tkhe holidays?"
"Nothing much. Not really anything that you should know about anyways."
Sora handed Riku breakfast and they tightened the gap so that Kairi wouldn't hear anything that they were saying. "We're not talking about you; Kairi; so that means that we aren't going to say anything that's going to incriminate you and your treasured life." Sora had turned back to reassure her.
"So...Riku; what were you saying?"
"I'm going to get off this island and explore the other worlds."
"Aren't you afraid of the heartless?"
"Of course not."
"If you are sure."
The next day he was off; he had constructed a raft which meant that he would be able to travel across the ocean. Along the way while he was dozing; he was interrupted by a sudden thud alongside his wooden log raft. It sounded as though thunder had struck and as Riku consistently wielded his weapon; he struck the ship with it; unexpected of the armour that protected it.
Out of the raft emerged two strange characters; a duck and a dog; definitely not a good couple. He thought as he sat up and rested his sword in its sheath. "Who are you?" he stated accusingly.
The duck pushed the dog aside and death stared at him, "Who are you? Do you know the wielder of the keyblade? We are looking for him so that we will be able to require the presence of King Mickey."
Riku grinned evilly, "The wielder of the keyblade is...Sora Hua! And he lives on that island there." He pointed back to the Destiny Islands; distracting them before jumping into the gummi ship and flying away.
"Hey! What do you think that you are doing?" The duck yelled back to him but he didn't listen and continued to clumsily drive.
Finally; about an hour later he landed on what seemed to be like a simple town where it seemed that there were minimal heartless and probably none at all. He was confident and he was ready to handle anything that was there to come. He docked the ship inside the garage and readied himself to explore the world and meet with the locals. It seemed that the most important thing was to go to the Accessory Shop where he would be able to find anything that was needed.
"Hello! Hello! Is anyone there?" he yelled as he entered the shop.
He was met with the disgruntled screams of the owner of the shop, "I'm frickin comin'! Be patient; right now!" he was surprised to find that it was a young lady that was approximately the same age as he was...suspected. She had soft pink hair and twinkling eyes that gave way to his enormously over-the-top urges to find a girlfriend to rival the relationship that he noticed had currently developed between them.
"Hello! Hello! Hello! Hello!" it seemed that 'hello' was the only words that he was able to say in front of her...unfortunately.
She tucked loose strands of hair behind her ear to reveal trinity symbol earrings. He reached out for them but she grabbed his hand and tightened the grip on his wrist before noticing his strangely beautiful aqua gemstone eyes. Claire shook her hair frantically and got back to the point of her grabbing his wrist, "What is your problem...beautiful..." she cut herself off before she would be able to say anything that would damage her reputation as the strong woman.
Riku crooked his head, "Beautiful? What are you talking about?"
"Nothing. Just. What do you want?"
"Why are you shouting? And why are you still holding onto my wrist?"
She blushed a violent red, "I just don't understand the reason that you kept saying hello."
"I thought you were deaf." He thought that the conversation that they were having at the moment was ridiculous.
She almost slapped his face but stopped halfway pausing to admire his mesmerising eyes and touch his face. The meeting of their eyes stopped when he pulled her hand away from his face, "I thought that you were definitely mad at me but then now I realize that I have done wrong."
"You have done wrong in assuming that I see anything in you."
"I didn't say anything about you seeing anything in me..." he paused for a moment to contemplate his chin between his thumb and forefinger. "Unless you do see something in me...beautiful person."
She immediately turned away from him, "of course I see nothing in you. Except that you are a stupid man." She didn't realise that while she was dreaming; jumped the counter and was now about only one metre away from her. When she had finally turned back around he pulled her by the waist closer to him and kissed her passionately. She slapped him.
"What are you doing?"
"Getting what I need." He released her waist, "Do you know what you should do right now?"
"What? Act like the stupid person that you are?"
"No," he paused and stroked her face, "you should come to the Destiny Islands with me. It's an amazing place and I think that if you come with me that it'll be the most wonderful place ever."
"Sure..." she stalled.
"Really?" Riku was enthusiastic about obtaining a girlfriend.
"No! Not really." She said the second part quieter as she realised that she was shouting words that would mean more according to her reactions.
Riku resolved for one last question before he would return to Destiny Islands, "at least tell me your name."
"No."
"What if I buy something; then will you tell me your name?"
"Maybe..."
"Can I buy a bicycle?"
"50 munny please."
He shuffled his hands inside his pockets to find that he didn't have enough money, "Can I pay you back later when I have the munny?"
"Absolutely not."
"Then come with me to the Destiny Islands and I'm sure that I'll find something or someone that I'll be able to pay you back with."
"Fine." She paused to set restrictions. "As long as we won't be staying in the same cabin on the ship together.
"Sure; my ship's just outside this world. Let's go see it now. But then..."
"What?"
"Won't the stuff in your shop get hijacked?"
"I really don't think that hijacked is the right word."
"Sure...but..."
"My uncle actually owns the shop but I don't think that he's going to mind if I leave for a couple of days...if it's a couple of days."
"I don't think that it would matter then. Let's go!" he exclaimed enthusiastically as he grabbed her wrist and rushed to the gummi ship before anyone would see them. But then....
But then...
...then...
Where was the ship?
Riku turned back to her; and asked for her name once more before she would storm away angrily, "what's your name then?"
"I'm not giving you my name if you aren't going to give me a ride to another place 'sides Traverse Town. Did you know, Riku that I haven't been to anywhere else besides Traverse Town? It's been quite boring here...I was hoping that you were going to get me out of here...but then...I suppose that you have let me down. I'm going to go back to my uncle's shop...where I'm actually needed."
He was reminded of the time that he lost the courage to tell Kairi about his true feelings and Sora told her of his feelings instead. This time; he wouldn't let that happen. He snatched her wrist and jumped off the clouds that supported the world. He turned to her as they fell and realized that he was clutching to her hand...he took no notice of it; instead taking that fear to ask her about her own, "You're not scared of anything; are you?"
"Of course not."
"Then...may I know your name; dear princess?"
"Not yet."
"Why?"
"We aren't there yet." She realized that he was still holding onto her hand also as they fell and realized that she hadn't realized up until this point that he was holding so tightly onto her hand. Subconsciously she let him hold onto her hand while in return he let her stare at his wonderfully omnipresent aqua eyes.
They fell onto the gummi ship...surprisingly...where Riku's death stare was met with the death stare of the duck that he had previously stolen the ship from.
He caught the girl that he had met in his arms and fortunately the dog let them inside the ship to gain warmth. "You're the guy that stole King Mickey's gummi ship...gosh."
"I'm very sorry...it's just that I hadn't been outside of the Destiny Islands world before and just wanted to see some other places."
The duck looked at him and the girl suspiciously before greeting either of them, "we are looking for King Mickey who has recently gone from the castle..."
"Yeah...that's right...I'm Riku and this is..." he left her time to explain her name before he had to beg them for a ride back to Destiny Islands.
"I'm Penelope Lucita. Just exploring with this guy...same sort of story."
"Where are you headed?"
"I want to show her Destiny Islands. It seems quite amazing."
"You said that you lived there; didn't you?"
"Yeah; but it is quite amazing when you see it." He lied...fortunately gaining the favour of the girl that he was planning to show around the place.
Once they had landed on the sweeping beaches of Destiny Islands they were met by the rest of the only kids that lived on the island. He introduced each of them briefly before he turned her away so that he would be able to have some alone time with her. "So...would you show me where you live?" Riku was ecstatic that she wanted to see where he was living already; before they really even got acquainted. What he didn't know was that 'Penelope Lucita's' real name was Claire Farron and was working for the Trinity as a soldier.
Where Riku lived was extremely shabby and seemed as though it were only a loft that was just inside the city's limits. It was simply a collection of 3 by 3 metre rooms and that included the kitchen where he made the meals.
...simplicity was simply Riku's theme.
He returned to the 'living' room with a simple mushroom soup that he thought was very delicious...the only thing that he made that really tasted right at all. "Do you like it...Penelope?"
She nodded her head slowly and cautiously in case there were any poisons in the soup. Claire had been trained to see whether there were anything that would endanger her life that were within food. It seemed as though that there were probably plenty of people that wanted her dead. "That's not going to happen..." she whispered to herself as she drank the actually (in truth) disgusting soup.
"What was that?" Riku questioned as he took the pink apron (that he had been given by Sora) off and placed onto the hook in the kitchen.
"It's definitely nothing." She replied, "your soup's absolutely perfect. But would it be alright if I didn't have seconds?"
She doesn't like it. He thought to himself as he slowly poured the rest of the soup that was in the bowl down the drain...to feed the rest of the animals that might be living in the sea.
When he got back she had gone...leaving her Trinity earring and a note.
Listen, Riku.
I know that you saw this earring. You have nothing to worry about. I'm not the evil side; I'm helping the two part Trinity that had been looking for Sora Hua. They've found him so that means that my shortlived exploration has taken a severe detour and once again; I'll be stationed at the Traverse Town- First District- Accessory Shop.
You can pay me back for bicycle anytime.
By the way...
My name's not Penelope Lucita. It's Claire Farron or you can call me Lightning; as the other soldiers call me. I hope that we are going to meet each other again soon. I'm leaving again for Traverse Town in two hours; when Donald and Goofy are ready to leave with Sora. Isn't it lucky that Traverse Town is their first stop?
Find me at Traverse Town...if you ever come.
Lightning...
P.S. you seem like a better person than I thought
"You don't seem like the hard-ass person that I thought that you were either." He slipped his smallest finger through Lightning's Trinity earring and it surprisingly fit. "Now I have a name and a real place that I'll be able to get you...Claire. One way or another. You are going to become my girlfriend."
Riku hadn't known someone like Lightning; yet there was something that was extremely magnetic about her and something more that he wanted to know about her. He was going to go after her...even though she was leaving sooner than she came.
He emerged from the small loft that he lived in; eager to find the person that he had fallen for in the period of two to three hours. It's amazing. He thought as he ran back to where the gummi ship had landed in the first place. It wasn't there anymore. Nor was the greeting party of Sora and Kairi. He knew that Kairi had probably gone back into town; readying herself for any news of Sora achieving in finding King Mickey in the following weeks. Unfortunately he wasn't able to get back to the person that he had fallen for.
The thing that he had thought wouldn't ever happen to him again; was happening to him again.
"I'm going to find you Claire!" he yelled into the ocean. "I want you to be my girlfriend and that's definitely going to happen...when I find you!" he yelled once more.
"You're going to do what? I'm not going to do that. I'm definitely not going to do that. That's too damaging to my reputation that is currently sparkling clean."
He turned around to find that the 160cm high with the sparkling baby blues with one hand at her hip and the other clutching to a weapon that would definitely be dangerous to his health if he got too close. Riku had lost his courage for love again. It happened again. Unfortunately.
"What happened? I thought that you were a hearty person that understood the type of person that I was. I thought I heard something about making me your girlfriend. What happened to that?"
He pulled her in at the waist and kissed her lips gently, "nothing happened to that. I just thought that you were deaf. That's why I was shouting."
She laughed softly before it escalated to a witch's cackling. "I'm still going to work for Trinity."
End of First Meeting One Shot
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