Author's Note: Hey everyone! Ready for chapter 25! This chapter I based off of one of the episodes of Drake and Josh. So, I hope you like this one and this'll be mainly about Sora and Riku (no YAOI). Review please!
Chapter 25: Housekeepers
Sora and I dropped our bags on the floor as soon as we stepped in the door to my house. School was a killer. My ankle was fully healed also. I had to take a math test, a science test, and a history test. Plus, I we had to do fitness day in P.E. today. Fitness days are where we have to spend the whole period going around the track, walking the straights and jogging the corners. I just walked into the living room and fell onto the couch, but when I did…
"OUCH!" I heard someone screaming their head off. I jumped up in alarm.
" Oh my gosh! Who's hurt?" I freaked out.
" Kairi?" I looked and saw…Rinoa, my older cousin!
" Rinoa?" we squealed and hugged each other. She wasn't that much older than me, only about 3 years older. We also started jumping a bit. She was like an older sister to me because I didn't have any sisters.
" Umm, hi?" Sora greeted her in a confused way.
" Oh. Rinoa, this is my boyfriend, Sora. Sora, this is my cousin, Rinoa."
" Wow, so you're Sora." Rinoa looked interested.
" Yeah." He laughed nervously.
" Kairi told me all about you. You're a lot cuter than she said you were. Can I have him?" I knew Rinoa was joking.
" Of course not, Sora is mine." I grabbed Sora by the hand. " Oh, does my mom know you're here?"
" Yeah, I called her before I came."
Rinoa and I picked up her suitcase and I helped her carry it upstairs to the empty bedroom that we use for guests. We placed the suitcase on the bed and helped her unpack. She brought a lot of stuff for just one weekend. But, even though she's 21, she still acts like she's in High School. No wonder she said she wasn't ready to get married. After we unpacked, we went downstairs into the kitchen and just sat in the dining room talking. I also pulled out tortilla chips and salsa.
" So, how long have you guys been going out?" Rinoa asked.
" Uh, next week, it would've been 2 months." Sora replied and he munched on a chip.
" Oh, Kairi, listen, I talked to your mom on the phone and she suggested that the three of use girls go camping over the weekend."
" It sounds fun, but I can't go, I don't have anyone to watch Buddy and the house." I replied, but then heard the doorbell ring. I went and opened the door. Riku was there. " Hey, Riku. What're you doing here?"
" I knew Sora would be here. Is he? I need to borrow his calculator." Riku replied.
" Yeah, come on in. Sora's in the dining room." I walked back into the room.
" All right! Chips and salsa!" Riku rejoiced as he grabbed a handful of tortilla chips. " Oh, Sora. I need to borrow your calculator."
" Sure thing. So, if no one can watch the dog, then that means you can't go?"
" I'm afraid so." Rinoa and I sighed.
" Well, Riku and I could watch the dog and house." Sora suggested.
" Oh, would you?" I asked sweetly.
" No problem." Riku's jaw was wide open with chips falling out after Sora said that. " Right, Riku?" It looked like Riku nodded weakly.
" Thanks." I kissed Sora on the cheek.
Sora's POV
Riku and I walked out of Kairi's house and towards my place. Riku got pretty pissed when I said that we'd watch the house and dog. Riku always hated housekeeping, but I loved Kairi and hate to see her unhappy, so I had to volunteer. They were leaving tonight and returning Sunday night, so we only had to watch the house for a couple of days.
" What! You're making ME help YOU watch YOU'RE girlfriend's house!" Riku yelled.
" Well, I had to. I didn't want Kairi to miss out on this camping trip." I replied softly.
" Look, Roxas and I are meeting at the House of Blues tonight, so I'll check on the house for a few minutes and then I'm off, got it?"
" Fine" I replied.
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I watched as Kairi, her mom, and Rinoa pulled out of the driveway. As they left, Kairi waved to me and I waved back. She left me with a house key, so that I could get in whenever I wanted. Riku finally arrived after waiting for like, 10 minutes. He explained that it took 10 minutes to walk from his house to Kairi's.
After Riku arrived, I unlocked the front door and walked into her house. It was actually quiet with them gone. But, what do you expect from an empty house? I guessed I just sit and watch TV and keep an eye on the house. Buddy was already lying down on the couch next to me, so he shouldn't be that hard to take care of. In fact, this house shouldn't be too hard to take care of.
" Okay, I checked the house. I'm off." Riku said as he headed towards the front door. I got up to grab something to eat, but as I did, a little, black dog came trotting in. " Sora, whose dog is that?" Riku looked nervous. I went and grabbed the list of important things on the refrigerator.
" It says that I have to take care of Roscoe, Rinoa's rottweiler." I replied.
" A rottweiler?" Riku asked nervously.
" Come on, he looks friendly." I hit Riku playfully in the arm and moved towards Roscoe. " Hey, cute puppy."
Roscoe then growled and snarled showing his big, killer jaws that were going to kill us! He barked and began to chase us. We both ran around the house scaring the crap out of Buddy, so he went out into the backyard through the doggy door. After running around, we ended up running into Kairi's bathroom.
" Man! That thing is a killing machine!" Riku breathed heavily as in if he were to have a heart attack.
" Okay, let's not panic. It's a dog, so it's bound to get tired and fall asleep sometime. All we have to do is just wait until the dog stops and then we'll get out." I thought up quickly.
" That could take hours and I have to meet Roxas at the club in 15 minutes!" Riku yelled.
" Quiet, I think the dog is down. The barking stopped, so let's just take a quick peak outside and see if everything is okay." Riku and I then creaked the door open only to find a mouthful of teeth barking, growling, and snarling trying to get into the bathroom. We quickly pushed the door shut.
" The dog is down, huh?" Riku mocked me.
" Okay, maybe it's not, but Kairi took her cell phone, so I'll call her and ask her how to handle this dog." I pulled out my phone and dialed Kairi's number. It rang for a while, but then her voice mail thing came on saying that she wasn't there. I left a message saying that I was desperate and needed her to come back home. I wondered if she ever got that message. " She's not there. I had to leave a message."
" Oh, that's just great! Give me the phone! I'll call a professional!" Riku grabbed the phone.
" No! Just wait until she calls back!" We began to grab the phone, but we ended up getting too out of control that my phone flew out of our hands and into the toilet. " Great! I wonder if it still works." I asked. Riku then flushed the toilet not knowing what I was talking about.
" Oh, yeah. It still works."
" I was talking about the phone! Not the toilet!" I yelled. " Okay, do you have your phone?"
" I think…oh crap! I left on the mantle in the living room! You have to go out there and get it!" Riku said nervously.
" Well, maybe you should go get it because it's your phone and you're faster than me."
" Okay, fine." Riku backed up a bit. " Okay, on three, you open the door. Ready? One, two, three!" Riku ran towards the door but slammed his head on it and fell to the ground. " Why didn't you open it?" Riku asked as he got up.
" You didn't say go."
" Fine! On go. Ready?" I nodded as Riku backed up again. " One, two, three, go!"
This time, I opened the door and Riku ran out full speed ahead and jumped over the couch. He ran over to the mantle and grabbed his phone. Unfortunately, he didn't see Roscoe sleeping on the couch, but I did. Riku walked away from the mantle doing "Final Fantasy" victory dance.
" I'm invincible! I'm invincible!" Riku yelled while doing his dance. Then, Roscoe ran up and bit Riku right in the leg! " AAAHHH!!!!! SORA! HELP ME!" Riku screamed at the top of his lungs.
I ran out of the bathroom and began yanking Riku by the arm towards the bathroom. Damn! That dog is strong! Riku was on the floor being pulled by Roscoe and I was pulling him by the arm to the bathroom! it was like we were using Riku for tug-of-war! Roscoe finally let go of his grip and we rushed to the bathroom.
" I'm alive!!!!" Riku yelled at the top of his lungs.
" Did you get the phone?" I asked.
" Uh…I think I might've…" We peaked outside and saw Roscoe chewing and ripping up Riku's cell phone.
" Oh man! Now how do we get out of here?" I asked thin air.
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Kairi's POV
I sat on a log roasting some marshmallows with my mom and Rinoa. I really hoped that Sora was doing a good job at taking care of the house and the dogs. Rinoa went into her tent looking for something in her backpack. I just sat and looked at the stars. I missed Sora a lot even though it was just the first night. I wish he could've come tonight, but at least this gives me time alone with Rinoa and my mom.
" Kairi, could I use your cell phone? I left mine at your place." Rinoa asked.
" Sure." I tossed her my phone. Rinoa listened to a message that was left on my phone.
" Kai, there's a message for you from a desperate boy."
" Mm, just delete it." I simply said.
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Sora's POV
It has been a couple of hours that we've been waiting for that dog to go away or fall asleep. I was doodling with a pen on toilet paper and it looked like Riku was playing solitaire because he was playing with cards. I grew bored and decided to stop doodling.
" Man, this is the worst Friday night ever!" I whined.
" You're damn right! I'm losing to a toilet!" Riku threw his cards up in the air.
" Losing to a toilet?" I asked.
" Yeah, I've been playing War with the toilet but it's winning!"
" Hello? Sora, Riku?" I heard a voice.
" It's Megan, you're little sister! Come on, she'll be eaten alive!" I began to open the door.
" Wait a minute! Just because she gets eaten alive doesn't mean we have to." Riku stopped me from opening the door.
" That's YOUR little sister out there!"
" Okay, fine!" We opened the door and saw Megan sitting on the couch with Roscoe sitting next to her.
" Megan!" I called her in a loud whisper. " Run!"
" Why?" Megan asked.
" He's vicious!" Riku replied.
" Ooh, down boy. You're so vicious." Megan said sarcastically. We came out and saw that the dog was being friendly.
" Wait a minute, it's being friendly, now." I looked at Roscoe.
" But, before you got here, he was vicious!" Riku was still freaking out.
" Wait, so if I leave, he attacks you guys."
" Yeah."
" See ya!" Megan walked out of the house and shut the door. The dog then growled and started barking and chasing us back into the bathroom.
It has been another half an hour and we're still stuck in the bathroom. I cannot believe that we're stuck in this bathroom! For the past 15 minutes I've also been doing weird dances and movements not because I was bored but because I had to go to the bathroom really bad and I didn't want to go with Riku in the bathroom. I just continued my stupid dances, which were really starting to bug Riku.
" Will you just stop!"
" I have to go to the bathroom." I replied.
" Then go!" Riku said.
" I can't go with you standing there."
" Just go, I won't look!"
" Fine." I went over to the toilet I began to pee when we heard another voice.
" Hello? This is Animal Control!"
As soon as we heard the Animal Control guy, we rushed out of the bathroom. The guy was just standing there with a pole and a collar-type thing at the end. Luckily, the dog wasn't out.
" How'd you know?" I asked.
" The neighbors reported two screaming girls and a barking a dog. Are you the screaming girls?" The guy asked us.
" Yeah." Riku and I muttered.
" Okay, then, bring me the animal!"
" All right, but just to warn you, this dog is vicious." Riku warned the animal control.
" Trust me, I've been in Animal Control for 11 years and there is no animal I can't handle."
The dog then came and started growling and barking at us. The animal control guy was scared to death and went running into the bathroom leaving Riku and I alone with the stick and loop thing. While Riku carried it, it was side-by-side, so he kept on having problems with getting it into the bathroom, but thanks to my smartness, I turned the stick straight and we barely made it in there.
We've been hiding in the bathroom with the animal control guy for another hour now. It was already almost 11pm! Man, was I pissed! I, not only was stuck in my girlfriend's bathroom, but I was wasting my Friday night being kept in this bathroom because of a stupid rottweiler! I was going nuts here!
" Okay, we have to get past that dog!" Riku blurted out.
" Ah! I got it! Okay, we'll split up! The dog will get confused and then we escape!" I suggested.
" Sounds crazy, but it might work!"
" Hey, look, I made a rubber ducky!" The animal control guy held up carved soap in the shape of a duck. " Rubber ducky, you're the one. You're the one for me." The guy began to sing the rubber ducky song.
" Okay, enough with the song! Ready, Riku?"
" I'm ready. Ready, one, two, three!"
We both charged out of the bathroom and into the living room. The dog got and began to chase it. That's when the plan went into action. Riku went towards the kitchen and I stayed in the living room. The dog chased us everywhere. He would chase me and then he'd go after Riku. Riku then pulled out meat from the refrigerator and threw it outside. The dog chased after the meat and jumped out the window. '
" Yes! Finally!" Riku yelled.
" Hug me brother!" We both said to each other. We then had little "buddy" hug, but then heard barking.
" Ah! Jump!" I suggested and we went and jumped out of Kairi's window and ran towards my house. We ran into the house and slammed the door shut. " Damn! I have never been so scared in my life!"
" Oh well, at least it's over. Hey, where's your dad?" Riku asked. I then looked behind me and saw my dad getting chased by the dog into the backyard.
" Uh, he can handle it." I simply said.
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The next morning
I still had to go and check on Buddy the next morning and he was probably still outside in the backyard, but I couldn't into the backyard unless I went through the house, so I would have to hope that Roscoe was kind of down. Riku decided to come along in case I got chased by the dog again. I placed the house key into the lock and unlocked it. When I opened the door and stepped in with Riku, we noticed a surprise. Kairi was back from her camping trip!
" Kairi! What're you doing here?" I asked in shock.
" Oh, we had to come back. Rinoa ended up getting in contact with poison ivy." Kairi replied as she pointed to Rinoa who was scratching all over the place and putting cream on her. " Why? You don't want me home?"
" Do I want you home? Of course I do! I'm so glad you're home!" I picked up Kairi, twirled her around and gave her a kiss. " Man, if I had one wish, it'd be to have you home! That dog, Roscoe, he nearly killed Riku and I!"
" My Roscoe, no! He wouldn't hurt a fly, right Roscoe?" Rinoa stroked Roscoe on his back.
" Yeah, exactly! He wouldn't hurt a fly, but he hurts people!" Riku exaggerated.
" Oh well, I should probably get going, but hey, I might see you at your graduation."
" Okay, thanks for coming, but sorry about your poison ivy." Kairi apologized.
" Oh, it's no big deal." Rinoa clipped Roscoe's leash on him. " Now, I just need to grab…" Rinoa reached her hand on the mantle as if she was looking for something. " Sora, Riku, have you seen my cell phone? I left it here on the mantle."
" Heh?" We both asked.
" My cell phone. You know, black and silver, thin, and it's Cingular. You guys were here, didn't you see it?"
" Well, Riku you tell her." I nudged Riku toward her. I got butterflies in my stomach as Rinoa began to look mad.
" What did you do with my cell phone?" Rinoa was getting pissed.
" Well…I think I might've sort of gotten my phone mixed up with yours. Okay, here's the story. Sora and I were stuck in the bathroom because of YOUR dog trying to eat us. Sora tried to call Kairi and left a 'desperate' message." Riku began to tell our story.
" Oh my gosh! That was you, Sora?" Kairi mentally slapped herself. " I'm so sorry." Kairi gave me a hug.
" Anyway, Sora tried to call Kairi. I grabbed the phone to call a professional, but we sort of got into a fight and accidentally dropped Sora's phone into the toilet. I, being the idiot I am, flushed the toilet and his phone was history. Then, I had to run out and grab 'my phone', but the dog attacked me after I grabbed it off the mantle and I dropped it and the dog chewed it up, so I think I might've accidentally dropped it and fed it to Roscoe." Riku then chuckled nervously.
" Wait a minute, so you dropped MY phone and Roscoe ATE it?" Rinoa asked in shock.
" Yeah." Riku muttered.
" I'M GOING TO KICK YOUR ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!" Rinoa then grabbed one of those cactus in a flower pot things and hit Riku in the "sensitive spot" (A/N: You know what I mean!). " YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT PHONE!" Rinoa then chased Riku with a beating stick out the house. Me, Kairi, and Kairi's mom watched in shock.
" Well, this is just one of those things we're going to laugh at five years from now, huh?" we all laughed. " I have to say, that was the worst Friday night of my life."
Author's Note: Okay, I'm finally finished with this chapter! Review for the next chapter. I know I said that this chapter probably would've been the Blitzball Game chapter, but I was watching Drake and Josh and they reminded me of Sora and Riku, so I just had to put it in there. Anyway, review!