A small sigh escaped Tane's lips as she peered out behind the curtains of her tiny bedroom window, looking down at her sister's friends. She'd always been stuck with the small bedroom since her and Kairi had ended up at the mayor's house and he'd favoured her sister over her. She was never going to be like Kairi, no matter how much she tried. It seemed like her sister had all the boys on the island wanting to be friends with her, while she was left following her around in the background.
Though that wasn't entirely true. She did resemble her sister quite a lot. The same bright red hair, same build- If not slightly smaller due to the year age gap. Infact the only main noticeable difference was Tane's eyes. Instead of the bright blue like Kairi, the younger girls were a striking emerald green. If it wasn't for that, she probably could pass for Kairi half the time.
Pulling on a pair of black shorts and a red tank top that matched her hair, she opened the bedroom window and shimmed out onto the roof before dropping down to the floor. Even if she wasn't that welcomed into Kairi's group of friends, she had nothing better to do. It seemed the three of them were making a raft.
"What's going on?" Tane asked, moving beside her sister who was smiling at Sora. The spiky haired boy seemed nice enough, and had been friends with Kairi for years, he was also a lot more welcoming than the other friend Riku. Even though she was only a year younger than Kairi, Riku had always treated her like a little child. Luckily he didn't appear to be in hearing distance on the raft, and Sora answered her instead,
"We're going to sail away, see other worlds that are out there" He grinned pointing to the raft "It was Riku's idea"
Ofcourse it was Riku's idea thought Tane slightly bitterly, everything was always Riku's idea, and his idea's never involved Kairi's little sister. But never the less, she looked up at the older red head hopefully. Kairi was always looking out for her and trying to get her friends to let her join in. That worked fine with Sora's occasional plans, he did seem to truly not mind Tane. But when it came to Riku… "Can I come?"
"NO" Damn apparently Riku could hear. A frown crept over Tane's normally angelic features and she moved closer to Kairi, taking shelter from Riku's rant about why-would-he-want-to-baby-sit-the-whole-journey. "You're too young to come with us, 16's and over, sorry" He didn't sound very sorry. Tane looked up at her sister, her only other chance of hope. Maybe she could persuade Riku to let her bring her along.
"I don't need babysitting, and you know it Kairi, I wouldn't be any trouble, I don't want to be left here on this tiny island for the rest of my life.. There's so much more out there.." She trailed off, confusion flooding her features at the surprised look Riku was giving her. That had been the same thing he'd said to get Kairi and Sora on board with making the raft.
"You can come" He muttered turning away and continuing with his building "Just don't pack much. But you have to help build the raft. And don't. Mess. It. Up"
Tane wasn't sure whether to smile or scowl, and went with a confused reaction instead. Riku rarely gave into her like that, maybe he finally realised she was growing up. But his warning at the end suggested otherwise.
"And leave the dummy at home" Definitely otherwise.
She shrugged turning away from the older white haired boy and smiled up at her sister and Sora,
"So, what am I doing?" Hopefully it didn't involve working with him, which wouldn't be pleasant. Maybe she could do something simple, not that she'd mess up something difficult like Riku had suggested, but simple would be.. Well simple.
"I'm going to get supplies with Sora, so you'll have to help build with Riku" Kairi said, giving her sister a half smile at the look on her face. "Don't worry, he really isn't that bad, just show him what you can do" And with that her last hopes walked off. Great, stuck with an arrogant, I'm-so-perfect-you're-a-baby jerk all day. Fun. Maybe she could just stay out of his way. Pausing her internal rant on Riku, she strolled over keeping her hands behind her back. Atleast this way she was guaranteed not to do much.
"Go get some wood, big, long pieces, and don't mess it up" Apparently not. Giving a small nod she retreated into the trees looking for fallen planks. Did he have to say that silly warning with everything. Even a 'child' as he seemed so sure she was, was capable of simple tasks. Sitting down on the floor, Tane picked at the flowers, twisting them into pretty patterns and spent the next good part of an hour braiding them into her hair. When she was finally happy with the result, and her hair was covered with white lilies, she stood up and went searching for wood again. She had to admit, collecting wood for Riku wasn't her idea of fun. Then again, doing anything for Riku wasn't her idea of fun. But maybe it would help him get the idea that she wasn't a baby into his thick head. Running a hand over a lily in her hair absentmindedly, she picked up several pieces of long wooden planks that were scattered on the ground, checking they fit into the category of big, long wood, before heading back to Riku. He'd never specified how much he'd needed, and by the looks of the raft earlier, it hadn't appeared he'd needed any. He probably didn't knowing him. Never the less Tane walked back to him and dumped the wood near the raft.
Without looking up, or even appearing to look at the wood Riku spoke,
"You can't do anything right can you"
Tane scowled, "What's wrong with it?" She was half expecting him to say it wasn't woody enough.
"It's not right. Luckily I can manage without it" Tane continued to scowl. He'd never even needed that wood, and she could make a good guess that no matter what she'd brought back it would have been wrong. Giving up Tane turned to walk away but was stopped by Riku's voice, "Go pack, lightly and no baby stuff, we're leaving tomorrow" This was going to be such a fun trip she thought sarcastically. Being on a raft with Riku for however long was never going to be her idea of a good time.
Shrugging off her thoughts, Tane went to packing a small rucksack. When she was almost finished, a loud crashing sound made her jump and run to the window, her mouth dropping open in a mixture of shock and horror. Out of no where and a storm was filling the sky, blackness all around where their raft had been. It had already been getting dark outside, but this wasn't normal, especially for Destiny Island. Grabbing her mostly filled rucksack Tane opened her bedroom window again and jumped out, landing a little heavier than she'd meant to on the ground bellow. She had just managed to gain her balance when she noticed Riku, keeping his composure calm as always, was stood by the hole in the sky, Sora talking animatedly at him. She ran over to both of them stopping in the middle, glancing from one to the other.
"Where's Kairi?" She shouted at Sora, who was probably the most likely to know. Kairi hadn't been in the house when Tane had, she'd been out late all week with the two boys and they were the most likely to know where they were, but Sora wasn't the one to answer,
"She's already gone through" She turned to stare at Riku, not fully believing her sister would have jumped through a hole into the darkness, but then, what did she have to fear.
"I'm not afraid of the darkness" He said as if reading her thoughts, and held a hand out each to Sora and the young red head, darkness wrapping around all three of their ankles. Tane did her best to reach his hand, as did Sora and both stretched out, Riku's calm exterior still giving nothing of his emotions away. She let out a yelp the darkness below her snaked up and held down her own ankles down firmly, scrambling to reach the hand infront of her, gripping onto his fingers tightly.
What happened next all seemed to be a blur as they were both sucked into the darkness, she had no idea if Sora had managed to take Riku's other hand, or she was going to be able to keep hold of his hand until they finished falling. When they finally landed with a thud on a black stone floor, he was still holding onto her hand tightly as they stood up, glancing around.
"Fuck. We lost the other two" He muttered.
A/N: Ok, I've rewritten this chapter, and I want to thank the person who reviewed the first attempt called 'Panda'. Because of them they've made me realised that it was rushed by even my standards, and I could write much better than that. So I hope this is of a better standard and a better read. The problem I seem to have with all stories I write, is I can come up with parts for later on and I rush to get to them. But for people to read that part, the first has to be good. So yes, thankyou very much to 'Panda', reviews really do help me. Z-Nugget xx