. : Chapter Three : .
As the two girls approached the boys they were arguing who had won. Both girls watched amused with their bickering fighting over silly simple things. Looking back and forth between them they both laughed at their childish behaviors. Umi liked Kairi because she could always count on her for support in her times of need and vise visa with Kairi. As they continued to watch they were growing impatient since one boy still had his fair share of things to do.
"Ha-ha, are you two done with your little moment? Can't we just call it a draw?"
Kairi was hoping around like a bunny with her hands together in front of her smiling at the two, while Umi was just smiling nodding her head agreeing with the girl next to her. She rested her right hand on her hip and her left hand pointing at her brother smiling more.
"And you dear brother still need to do YOUR end of work."
She continued to smile before the two boys, but also before they could argue anymore with who had won the race. She stood back into position and smiled at Kairi who had smiled back as well with their plan. Sora, who was looking at his sister with a disbelief face on gave her the pleading eyes, Umi shook her head laughing some before bonking him on the head lightly.
"Ow...But Umi~ I already did my share or work."
She shook a finger in front of his face smiling some, knowing how he worked she knew he was trying to wriggle his way out of doing any sort of "hard labor" to his vocabulary. She rested her hands on her hips looking at him giving him a look of not believing him. Riku and Kairi were laughing seeing the two.
"Come on Sora, your the most laziest one out of our group, and with your sister your never going to get out of it."
Riku laughed more after he had finished, and it was true Sora was but he could pull through on things in tight situations. Umi smiled at him then grabbed a hold of her brothers arm tugging it like a child would when they wanted something.
"Soooorrraa~ pleaaaaseee~??"
Well that did it, letting out a sigh of defeat the brown-haired boy nodded his head with a gloomy face on. Taking his hold out of his sisters grasp he went up to Kairi who was eagerly waiting for him and laughed. Kairi looked at him patting his shoulder a bit trying to reassure him on the situation he was put into.
"Come on Sora, it isn't that bad. All you have to do is gather the rest of the supplies."
The two of them walked off or more like, Kairi tugging Sora with her towards the door leading to the Cove, and just leaving Umi and Riku.
Watching the two Umi couldn't help, but laugh at the scene. She always thought the two of them were always a cute couple, but...also Riku and Kairi. Shaking that thought from her mind she turned around and started to walk away. She was going to take her time walking along the beach to think upon those dreams.
"Hey, where do you think you're off too?"
A voice stopped her in her tracks as she turned around seeing Riku standing there with his left hand on his hip as he gave her a smile. She laughed lightly while rubbing her hand on the back of her head.
"Well I was just going to walk around the shore. Why? You wanna have a sword fight?"
A twinkle was in her eye as she looked at the silver haired boy. She knew he wouldn't pass it up, none of them would actually. Even though she was a girl, she loved to sword fight with Riku or Sora. Riku looked right back at her smirking in a cocky way as he started walking towards her to the island connected to the Shack.
"Course I am, and I'm going to beat you pipsqueak."
That earned him a good well round of her famous glare as she chased after him. As they got to their spots with there wooden swords in hand they circled each other. Both of them were excited, it been awhile since they ever had a battle. But when they did Riku of course always won, but she would always be closer to beating him. As there stares were locked onto each other none made a move…yet. After awhile Riku made the first move, taking a step forward then jumping, coming down at her from above with the sword she blocked and parried away from him. She then launched herself using the momentum from the jump to push the speed more into the attack. As Riku came to block she used that and jumped. As she was coming down she brought her arms closer to her to speed up for the attack, coming closer to him she released her arms and brought the sword down as he blocked pushing her away from him.
The battle went on for awhile longer, none giving up or giving time for either opponent to make moves. Both had to be quick on their feet, and as usual, none of them were faltering. The sun was beginning to set and Riku and Umi were out of breath, this would be the last attack either of them would ever do, and both knew it. Getting ready for the last attack Umi locked onto his movements, pin pointing his next move. She had a new trick up her sleeves as she practiced with it secretly for Riku or Sora to ever know. Riku on the other hand never really did come up with anything new; if he did it would be during spare of the moment. As Riku was launching himself at her she smiled standing there, confused Riku didn't have time to think as he went in for the attack bringing his sword up and downwards to her, she ducked and did a spin kick on the ground knocking Riku to his butt. As she stood above him she smiled down at him, and with that; it was shown who had won. Riku looked shocked, but smiled at her laughing a bit. She did as well holding her hand out to him to take in which he did.
"You took me by surprise, I never knew you'd think of something like that."
Riku was honest as they both calmed while watching the sunset waiting for Kairi and Sora to return. Smiling sheepishly Umi rubbed the back of her neck. She looked to the sunset smiling a little.
"Thanks, but I was working on that one secretly."
Smiling more she laughed seeing his reaction. He was brought back to his senses as he ruffled up her hair as she glared at him slapping his hand away and fixing it.
"I had fun though, thanks for that Umi…"
Blinking, she was slightly confused. Was there something going on that she wasn't aware of that was going on with Riku? Either way before she could answer she heard voices, and smiled knowing who they belonged to.
"What took you two so long, you had Riku and I bored to death waiting for someone to finish."
Umi said while laughing and looking at the sunset without looking at them. She heard a laugh and knew it was Kairi, Sora just let out a sigh while making him comfy on the tree, resting against the tree top. Kairi took her spot next to her and by Sora's feet, and Riku took his usual spot between her and Kairi. They all were watching the sunset, none were speaking each one of them lost in their thoughts.
"So, Kairi's home is out there somewhere, right?"
Sora asked breaking the silence. The tone was curious as all of them were, especially Kairi herself. Riku turned his attention to him then back to the sunset before speaking.
"Could be. We'll never know by staying here."
He said, than Sora leaned over Kairi to look at his best friend.
"But, how far can a raft take us?"
Always full of questions and this made Umi laugh as well with Kairi. Then Riku continued to talk.
"Who knows? If we have to, we'll think of something else."
He still kept his gaze out at the endless sea, Umi never took her gaze off it either, but she heard her best friend speak up.
"So, suppose you get to another world. What would you do there?"
She laughed between the words; she was a curious as she was. Kairi looked at him fondly with awaiting his reply as she was. Then turned her attention to Riku waiting to see what he would say. He was always full of answers, well…with something's he was.
"Well, I haven't really thought about it. It's just…I've always wondered why we're here on this island. If there are any other worlds out there, why did we end up on this one? And suppose there are other worlds…Then ours is a little piece of something much greater."
He put a lot of thought into his words and sentence structure. Typical him, she was use to it though. He was always like that since she could ever remember of him.
"So we could have just as easily ended up somewhere else, right?"
He then looked up at the three of us with his eyes clearly showing how excited he was getting just thinking and speaking of it. Sora leaned back relaxing with his hands behind his head looking up at the sky.
"I don't know."
And Riku pointed his finger as saying exactly. He shifted his weight as she stood up instead of leaning against the tree trunk.
"That's why we need to go out there and find out. Just sitting here won't change a thing. It's the same old stuff. So let's go."
As he was saying that Kairi looked at him studying him like I usually did when he got deep like this with his words, Umi couldn't blame her though. He never got this worked up on something before, so this must be important to him. Sora just looked over at him just wondering what he was thinking.
"You've been thinking a lot lately, haven't you?"
Both Kairi and I asked at the same time, we both could tell how much he was thinking on it, but made us look at each other laughing lightly and smiling, then turned our attention back to our best friend.
"Thanks to you and Umi. If you hadn't come here, I probably would've never think of any of this."
Sora looked over at Riku then back to Kairi and us. He felt a bit down and was thinking. Riku was always one step ahead of him in everything, and thought of himself as being the number one. He could never beat him if he ever wanted to. And that thought made him feel weak to Kairi.
"Kairi, Umi…Thanks."
Both of us turned to each other then back to him, we both let out a small laugh not really sure how to respond or know what to say instead we just said it.
"Your welcome."
Kairi and me took the lead off the small island. We were talking about small things, and just random bits and pieces at times too. Sora and Riku were behind taking there time. Sora was halted to a stop hearing his friend call his name and throw him something.
"A paopu fruit…"
Looking at it confusingly he looked a Riku as he explained walking past him towards shore where their houses laid.
"If two people share one, their destinies become intertwined. They'll remain a part of each other's lives no matter what. C'mon I know you wanna try it."
Sora, still confused tried calling out to him to explain more, but all he earned was a laugh from his best friend. Throwing it to the side in the sea below he ran after him who was already running on shore towards his sister and Kairi. At times he never really understood him, but either way still kept him close to his heart.
