Biting his lip, he said with a straight face, "I don't usually let people in here--let alone girls. But I'll let you Kairi; you're special."
She smiled sweetly--slightly sickeningly--and this just fed Sora's humor. "Thank you, Sora!" She squealed.
He nodded and started to crawl into the cave, and Kairi followed soon after, seeming to be shaking with either fright or excitement. Sora was too, but because he was trying to keep his laughter in. He never was the best at doing that.
"Gosh, Sora, it's so dark in here." She complained faintly, and grabbed his hand for support.
The brunet led her in rather calmly. "Well, here it is, Kairi. Me and Riku's secret hiding place. Sorry he couldn't be here with us."
"No, it's fine, Sora..." She said slowly, her hand loosing it's firm grip on Sora's as she began to drift over to the smooth stone walls. "Wah! It's so...cool! You did these, Sora?" She motioned to the wall carvings.
He shrugged, still gnawing on his lower lip. "Uh, yeah."
"Wow..." Kairi murmured, still moving about. "And these, did Riku do these? No, he did. I can tell."
The red-head continued to move about, till she looked in one corner and blinked. Slowly, she turned to Sora who was standing near the the entrance, observing the walls in mock innocence.
"Sora?" She called, and her voice had a slight tremor. "Sora, why is there a door in here?"
"Hmm?"
"Sora, look over here! There's a door in here! In a cave!"
He turned and knit his eyebrows together, seeming oblivious of the bright and shining door located behind Kairi. "What are you talking about Kairi? I don't see any door. Don't be weird--a door wouldn't be in a cave."
"But Sora!"
"Jeez, Kairi. I thought you'd take this seriously; me letting you in--"
She sighed. Maybe she was hallucinating, though she wasn't quite prepared to turn again just yet. "No, Sora, I'm sorry. Go back to whatever you were doing, I guess..."
Slowly, he nodded. And more slowly, she turned back to the glimmering door. Shaking, Kairi reached a hand out to grip the handle and pulled.
It opened almost all the way by itself with a loud groan--she forgot all about Sora, and he turned to watch.
Tendrils of black, darker than the lighting in the cave surrounding them, swirled out, and a figure in a dark cloak drifted inside the cave, leaning menacingly towards Kairi.
"Kairi..." The semi-dead-sounding voice ground out. "Kairi..."
She shrieked.
"Kairi...!" It said with rising strength. "Give...in...to...the...darkness...!"
The red-headded girl shrieked once again and began to flee, screaming, "Never!!!"
"Kairi! BOOOO!!!!" It screamed to fear-deafened ears.
Back inside the cave, the cloak hood was pushed back to reveal a boy with curtains of gleaming silver hair and a cheshire cat-like grin. "That was almost fun, Sora."
"Told ya it'd be." The boy said indignantly, as the silver-haired boy ruffled his spikes.
He spluttered angrily as the older boy said, "Though I could have thought of something better."
The elder casually strolled out of the cave while Sora ran after him. "No you could not have! RIKU!"
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A/C: Is it obvious that I'm a firm believer of Soriku?
Oh, and the reason this is marked as Sora & Roxas is because they're the ones I'm focusing this on.
