A/n: Sora: Where are the freakin' nachos?
Me and Riku: THERE ARE NO GODDAMN NACHOS!
Sora: Ohhhh, okay.
Riku: I swear…
Me: There, there. Anyway, Square Enix owns Kingdom Hearts, not me. Chapter 7 everyone.
Chapter 7 Awwwww…
Luna and Riku walked away from the back of the castle and into a wooded area. It was pretty quiet and Riku started up a conversation. "So, when did you get your powers?"
"As soon as me and Sole moved here. The elemental magic we learned on our own."
"Oh." He decided to bring up a question. "Your…hair, is it a dark blue or black?" Luna looked confused and shrugged her shoulders. "Well, my mom referred it as midnight black; it is black with some blue… And your eyes?"
"It's kind of like an aqua color, it depends on the light, I guess."
They found the clearing with the weeping willow in the shallow lake. "This is where the heart of the world is. I come here sometimes. Hopefully no ones following us. So…exactly what did you want to talk to me about?"
Riku rubbed the back of his head and started talking. "Well, I want to know...if…um…if you know anything about some animals and an endless lake with flowers and light rain with no clouds and stuff."
"Um, the animals, probably the wolf and the hawk, are guardians, or that's what my grandmother said, of the amulets. The wolf is with the moon, and the hawk is with the sun. But it was a story. As for that lake, my grandmother said it was a place where the hearts 'begin an ending life'. But I don't know what that means."
"Oh. Okay. The thing is that I've been getting weird dreams and…"
"COME ON AND ASK HER OUT ALREADY!" Sora, Sole, Yuffie, Ren, and Ken fell out of a bush. Luna and Riku took the opportunity to run. "Damn, they're getting away!" Ren pouted.
Yuffie had a wide mischievous grin. "Don't worry, I'll get reinforcements."
The two got back to the castle and found Leon, Cid, and Cloud playing cards. Riku interrupted them.
"Hey, sorry guys, um, if the 'weird group' asks you where we went, tell them we went to the city instead of," Luna whispered to them, "the Eastern Shore. But don't say that Eastern Shore part." Luna gave Leon 4500 munny to ensure the deal.
Leon had some of his drink. He took the munny and said, "Whatever."
They ran off and a few minutes later, the group found Cloud, Cid, and Leon. "Come along with us you guys!" Yuffie said.
"What's in it for…?" Sole gave Leon 5500 munny and he put it in his pocket. "Cloud, go get Tifa. We're going on a field trip."
Riku and Luna reached the Eastern Shore. It was pretty windy and lightly drizzling. "So this city is actually a big island?"
"Yeah, also, the General's fortress and mansion is on an island offshore in the northern part of the city." Luna took off her shoes, grabbed them in her hand, and walked to the water to get her bare feet wet.
Riku looked beyond the beach and turned to her. "I want to ask you something."
"I thought what you asked earlier was it."
"Remember when we were cut off?"
"Oh, so what were you going to say?"
"Well…I've been getting weird dreams, the animals appeared, and I think I went to that endless lake. Do you know anything about that?"
"Sorry, no." It was silent and Riku went over to Luna and put his hands on her shoulders. There was a little silence. "What is it?" "Nothing." He let go and Luna put her shoes back on. She started looking at a seashell she just found.
"Riku, do you, um, like me?" She blushed a bit when she said that. Riku started blushing a bit too. Crap, she saw right through me? "Sole kind of read your mind earlier and blabbed it out to me. So…yeah."
"Well, yeah I do. You?" She blushed more and said nothing. "Luna?"
Riku saw a towering red and white gazebo, about twelve feet over the water with addition of some large boulders. It had an open hole in the center of the roof, probably to let the sun in. "That's a nice place." Luna nodded and Riku carried her in his arms. She let out a small gasp. He carried her up the stairs of the gazebo and found a place to sit on the wrap around wooden benches. Riku sat Luna down and sat down next to her. He put his hands on her shoulders again.
"I was wondering if…you…want to go out with me."
Luna blushed a very red color. "A-a-are you serious?" She stood up and played with the rings on her fingers.
Riku stood up, smiled, and kissed her forehead. "Yeah, I'm serious."
Luna looked red as an apple and laughed and smiled a little. "S-sure. Why not."
"Then it's a date."
There was a brief moment of silence. Riku and Luna hugged and leaned closer to kiss. But then the drizzle became hard rain. "Oh! It's raining." Luna said and her hair was almost soaked. Riku's face was almost shielded by his hair, but Luna can tell he was smiling. He took his hair out of the way and they leaned in again. This time, they actually kissed. This was going on for about a minute.
Then Luna opened her eyes and stopped kissing and pointed behind Riku. He turned around and found Sora, Sole, Ren, Ken, Cloud, Tifa, Leon, Yuffie, and Cid watching. The couple got out of their embrace.
"This is so cute sniffle" Sole said. "You said it sister. Man, now I'm getting all teary-eyed." Cid said trying not to cry. "Wow, I guess this was worth 5500 munny." Leon said looking at the munny and Yuffie was trying to take some but kept on failing.
"If only you guys were this noisy while being sneaky." Riku said, rolling his eyes.
"You know what sis; I thought this kind o' stuff was gross…" Ken said, his eyes widened. Ren shook her head and sighed in an "oh brother" way.
"You guys, let's just give them privacy." Tifa said as she was leaving, but she was holding back a laugh. "Yeah, for our sakes." Cloud said as he was leaving with Tifa.
"Don't get too hasty you two." Sora said and everyone left.
Luna chuckled a bit. "Well, it looks like all of the secret hiding places are not so secret anymore. So when is our date?" Riku embraced her again. "What day is it today again?"
"Wednesday." "Okay, how about Friday?"
"Friday it is." And they started kissing again without a care of the rain.
