A Promise is a Promise

Prologue

It's Sora and Kairi's senior year in high school. Sora finally feels he needs to tell Kairi how he feels about her. Will he be able to do it? (A/N: Contains KH2 info. So possible spoilers!)

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Chapter 7: And Then There were Four…

(A/N: As Promised, Chapter seven is posted because the review count hit 20. Thank you to all that reviewed this story. Tell your friends to read this and review. I'll post chapter 8 soon. Hopefully, by then I will have at least 30 reviews. Without further ado, here's Chapter 7!)

The sun rose over the horizon early in the morning. A gentle breeze blew through the air. Sora awakened to find himself next to Kairi. He was a little surprised at first, but then remembered the night before and sunk back against her.

"You two seemed to have hit it off pretty well!"

Sora looked up and noticed the "trio" standing around them. He was now officially embarrassed. He didn't expect his friends to see him and Kairi like this.

His friends could see Sora and Kairi's bodies, which were now in different positions then they were the night before. She was now turned facing him, her lips inches away from his and he could feel the air coming from her mouth as she breathed. He had the urge to give her a small kiss, but he respected her and wouldn't do anything like that without her approval. His hand, concealed by the sleeping bags, was no longer around her waist, but now resting on her butt. One of Kairi's hands was resting on Sora's cheek. Her other hand, near a "lower region" of Sora's (A/N: Sorry if the description is a little weird. I'm not very good at describing stuff like this).

He began to blush. He removed his hand from her butt and moved her hand away from his "region". He kissed her on the forehead. She began to stir and awoke, surprised at the closeness of her face to Sora's. She backed up when she looked up to see the "trio" watching them.

"Some privacy please!?" Kairi scolded at them. The "trio" just began laughing.

Sora and Kairi got out from under the sleeping bags and stood up to stretch. Sora looked around. Wakka was standing with his arms folded looking out at the sea. Tidus and Selphie were leaning against the paopu tree, holding hands…and making out.

Geez! Get a room guys!

Sora thought to himself, though he could see the same expression on Kairi's face.

"Can I ask why you guys decided to watch us?" Sora asked to no one person of the trio.

"It wasn't our intention," Tidus started, "We came looking for you guys and found you here. We didn't want to wake you up, but it was funny seeing you two together like this. It seemed hard to leave."

"Whatever." Sora replied. Sora noticed Wakka just staring at the water as if concentrating on something. Sora glanced out at the horizon, but didn't see anything that would draw Wakka's attention.

"Wakka, what's out in space that you're staring at?"

"I'm not staring at anything. I'm just thinking."

"About her?" Sora asked.

"Yeah." Wakka replied, letting out a small sigh.

Sora walked up to him and rested his hand on Wakka's shoulder.

"Don't worry about it too much. Just let it all out when you tell her. What time you leaving?"

"Leaving?" Kairi looked over as did Selphie who caught Sora's question in the middle of her

lovefest with Tidus.

"Oh that's right." Tidus said. "Wakka is thinking about Lulu so much, he's going to leave our island today and go see her."

"How sweet!" Kairi replied. "Just remember this: the key to a girl's heart is kindness. Show her how nice you can be and how much you care for her. She'll come around."

Sora, listening in on what Kairi was saying, locked away that information in the back of his mind. Maybe it could come in handy.

"I think I'll leave in a little bit; when I'm confident enough to go talk to her." Wakka told them.

"Just relax when you talk to her. Picture it as if you were just talking to one of us, and it'll go smoothly." Sora said.

Around 11:00, judging by the position of the sun in the sky, Wakka rowed off towards home…and his possibly future lover, Lulu. This gave the two "couples" some time to play around. The four of them went down to the beach. Tidus and Sora both took their shirts off, revealing some teen muscle. The girls, already in their bathing suits, laid some towels on the sand and took a seat, preparing to get some tans. The boys didn't let them have a chance though.

First, the two boys grabbed the girls and let them sit on their shoulders. Then they ran out to the water and Selphie and Kairi tried to push each other off of their boy's shoulders. Kairi won every time, mainly because Sora was strong enough to support her weight, and was able to maintain his balance so well that Kairi couldn't fall off and even if she was about to, he could push her back up with ease.

(A/N: This is a real game but I can't remember the name of what it's called. I think it's called chicken or something like that. If you definitely know the answer, review and send the answer to me please!)

Afterwards, the girls got a break. Tidus and Sora somehow found their old wooden swords and decided to go a couple sparring rounds. Tidus was a good fighter and pretty agile, but all the running around and fighting that Sora did on his adventures proved him to be far superior in battle than Tidus could ever be.

As the girls watched, Kairi finally got a glimpse of Sora's muscular body. He had a perfect chest, complete six-pack, pumped-up arms and his calves were a fairly large size as well. No wonder she always liked being hugged by him. What girl wouldn't like being that close to guy like that and feeling his perfect body?

Kairi was blushing so much at the thought of this she looked like her face was sunburned. All she could really do was stare at Sora. She always had wondered what he had under that shirt of his and always daydreamed of Sora hugging her without his shirt on. Now that she had seen Sora's body, she could fully complete her daydream. Selphie noticed Kairi going google-eyed over Sora and waved her hand in front of Kairi's face, snapping her back to reality.

By now it was around 12:30. Kairi had a small surprise for all of them. She brought the entire gang out to the small island. She opened her large bag and pulled out a long piece of rope and a thin piece of wood. Perfect items to create a makeshift swing. Sora and Tidus jumped up on the paopu tree tied the rope through the holes already drilled through the wooden board.

Selphie jumped on it first to test it. It held her weight perfectly and she continued swinging. Everyone took at turn at some point. When the girls were swinging, their "partners" would push them. After everyone got their turn, Sora came up with a crazy idea. He took one look at Tidus and grinned. Tidus didn't really know what he was thinking, but then Sora directed his eyes toward Kairi, and Tidus caught on. He sat down on the swing and asked Kairi to sit on his lap, she gave a confused look, but it was only a cover up for her blushing.

(A/N: I have absolutely no idea what I was thinking when I wrote this next part. Something just jumped in my head and I typed it up. This sounds like something I might do if I was high at a party or something)

She sat down and he whispered in her ear, "Do you trust me?"

"I trust you, Sora." Kairi replied.

"Hold on to the ropes."

Kairi grabbed the ropes and Sora put his arms around her waist. He then began to kick back and forth to make the swing go. When they were going pretty high, Sora asked Kairi again,

"Do you trust me?"

"Yes. Why are you asking?"

"When I tell you to, let go of the ropes."

"...Um...why?" She asked.

"Just do it. Trust me."

"...Um...okay."

When the swing went back and started coming forward, at the middle of the swing, Sora told Kairi to let go of the ropes. She did and at the height of the swing going forward, Sora thrust himself off of the swing. He and Kairi were now flying outward toward the ocean. He picked her up by the sides of her waist and lifted her into the air and let her go, making her go even higher than him.

Sora and Kairi now fell down towards the waterBoth of them did a cannonball into the water. Kairi was screaming with both fear and joy the whole time. Kairi popped her head out of the water and looked around for Sora. She sat there at the surface for a few seconds, but Sora didn't come up. She began to get worried.

"BOO!" Sora popped out behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist.

"Ahh! Sora let go! I can't even swim like this!"

"Don't worry, I got you. You're not going anywhere. Stop kicking. You'll see."

Kairi trusted Sora, but was reluctant to stop kicking for fear that she would go under. She did as she was told and realized that she really wasn't going anywhere.

"See? I told you. I'm not going to let anything bad happen to you."

Kairi turned around and looked at Sora, his arms still around her.

"Flying through the air was fun, but don't ever do that again, at least no without telling me!"

She told Sora. He gave her a disappointed look, but then smiled and nodded at her. They swam back to the island and Kairi hugged him out of pure happiness. Then she realized what was happening. Sora's shirt was off and he was hugging Kairi. Her daydream of him hugging her with his shirtless body came true!

She was so pumped up now, looking ready to try something else crazy. She had so much adrenaline flowing through her right now. They climbed up the ladder on the opposite side of the small island. Tidus just gave Sora a look that meant "you crazy guy."

The day went on until late afternoon. Selphie and Tidus had their stuff packed up and ready to go back home.

"I thought you guys were going to stay another night." Kairi asked.

"We were, but we're a little concerned about Wakka right now." Selphie replied.

"You guys can still stay another night, though…alone." Tidus said with a grin.

He looked at Sora and flashed a thumbs up at him and winked at him. Sora just rolled his eyes. Sora and Kairi looked at each other, both blushing very slightly. They thought about how lonely it might seem with just the two of them, but shrugged it off and Sora and Kairi agreed to stay the last night. They waved as Selphie and Tidus paddled off in their boats. It was almost sunset.

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(A/N: Hmm...Sora and Kairi on an island...at night...alone? I wonder what's going to happen. I know you are too, but the stories don't get posted without good reviews. So the more you review, the more of the story I can write. Until next time, Chapter 8: "Just the Two of Us". Sounds interesting!)