Disclaimers: Kingdom Hearts, Disney, and Final Fantasy are in no way associated with yours truly.

Valentine's Day isn't either.

Ugh... the only reason this is so mushy is cause it's Valentine's Day.

Watch out, Sora, you're gonna get it in the next arc since you made me write sappy again.

And yes, I know that Roxas just ends up disappearing and I have an explaination:

He goes to the store.

SO THERE!


"RIKU! I NEED SOME HELP!" Sora whimpers as he jumps into through Riku's bedroom window, fully dressed and fully distressed.

Riku opens a sleepy eye and grimaces at the sight of his best friend babbling on about something having to do with hearts and love; instead, he checks the clock on his bedside table. It read about three in the morning.

"And I couldn't sleep! What should I do?" Sora finishes, collapsing on the floor, clutching a construction paper heart closely to his chest, seeming close to passing out.

"Wha?" Riku manages to mumble out, sitting up in bed and staring at Sora.

"Valentine's Day." Sora whimpers as he visibly trembles at the mere sound of the two seemingly innocent words.

"… So?" Riku asks, already feeling like this was going to end up being more trouble than its worth.

"It's Valentine's Day and I don't know what to get Kairi! All I've done so far is make her this crappy card!" Sora explains again, holding up the heart shaped card to Riku.

"Good night." Riku informs him as he flops back onto his covers, preparing himself to fall back into his very nice dream involving eating ice cream on the Clock Tower of Twilight Town with a very special friend of his.

Sora had other plans.

"RIKU! I need your help!" Sora shrieks, grabbing Riku's bare shoulder and shaking him violently.

"Alright, alright!" Riku wails, now fully awake.

"SHUT THE HELL UP! IT'S 3 IN THE MORNING YOU DUMBSHITS!" Dante's voice, coming from his room next to Riku's, screams.

"Please?" Sora says in a whisper, pleading with Riku quietly.

"Fine. Go get my pants." Riku orders, pointing to his closet and Sora dutifully runs to get some jeans for his cranky friend.

After a few minutes, Riku's fully dressed and they both walk down the road to Sora's house.

"So… how are you gonna help me?" Sora asks as he stares disdainfully at his crumpled up card.

"… Get her a present." Riku mumbles sleepily, leaning on Sora to make sure he didn't collapse on the road.

"What kind of present?" Sora asks, carefully supporting Riku.

"Don't know yet. Need coffee. Lots and lots of coffee." Riku tells him inaudibly, stumbling after Sora.


Sora's House

When Sora leads the sleepy Riku into his kitchen, he gets the shock of his life.

"What the hell is Roxas doing here?" Riku yelps, staring at the moody blonde Nobody who was simply sitting at the kitchen counter, stirring a cup of hot coffee calmly.

"… I couldn't sleep and Sora called me, screaming about how he needs my help." Roxas informs him calmly, taking a sip of his drink before adding more sugar to it and keeps stirring.

"… There better be some for me." Riku says, too sleepy to care that one of the people he hated most in all of the worlds was sitting in front of him.

After everyone (except for Sora) had gotten some caffeine inside of them, they both turn to the nervously twitching Keyblade Master, expecting a good show.

"Look, Valentine's Day is today and I need a present for Kairi! Help me!" Sora explains again, looking at them pleadingly.

"And why should we? I mean, I have my own problems with Naminé's gift and… well, Riku doesn't have a girlfriend. Or even a love interest." Roxas says bluntly, taking a sip of his coffee and a bite of some cookies that he found in the cupboards of the kitchen.

Riku glares at Roxas hatefully, getting ready to dump his cup's contents all over the blonde's head when Sora sighs miserably.

"Fine. Then I'll just have to become a monk or a hermit just because Kairi will most likely dump me for not getting her a good present!" Sora wails, slamming his head viciously against the tiled counter.

Roxas and Riku look at each other, each one silently agreeing to help Sora as long as they didn't have to cooperate more than necessary.

"What exactly did you have in mind?" Roxas asks Sora who looks up cheerfully.

"Oh, I was thinking I'd get her some roses! Roses are romantic, right?" The clueless teen says in a thoughtful way.

"… Yeah, they are. They also don't grow in Destiny Islands. It's too hot for them." Riku points out calmly. Sora sighs and continues hiding his face in his arms, staring at the tiles of the floor as if they knew the answer to all of life's secrets.

"How about something useful? Like… something she'd want?" Roxas suggests next.

Sora thinks about this.

"I can't think about anything she'd want though." He admits with a sheepish grin, looking at Roxas and Riku for help.

"Well, Xion said that she wants a Struggle Bat. Would Kairi want one?" Roxas asks next.

"Yeah!" Sora agrees, already liking the idea of getting a bat. Of course, it didn't cross his mind that a bat was not exactly a gift that a very girly girl like Kairi would want.

"YOU TWO ARE THE BIGGEST IDIOTS I'VE EVER SEEN!" Riku snarls, standing up and glaring at the two.

"Riku, it's three in the morning!" A voice shouts from upstairs.

"So shut the hell up!" Another agrees sleepily.

"Daisuke, don't curse at them."

"He deserves it, the little bastard, waking me up five hours before I'm supposed to…"

"…. Sora, I know the perfect present. And it won't cost you a single munny." Riku says as he motions the boys over to listen to his plan.


Kairi's House: 8 o clock AM

"Uh, good morning, Kairi!" Sora says in a terrified voice as Kairi walks out of her house.

In the middle of adjusting her school uniform's skirt, she smiles sweetly at Sora and says:

"Good morning, Sora! Wow, you look awful. Did you sleep well?" Kairi asks curiously, staring at the dark rings underneath Sora's eyes.

He jumps back and starts babbling nervously.

"Uh, ye-yeah, I slept fine! You know me, I sleep like a log! Nothin' can wake me up, no sirree!"

Kairi blinks at this but decides not to press the issue and starts walking with him to school.

On their extraordinarily quiet journey, she notices the missing presence of someone important.

"Sora, where's Riku? He usually walks with us…" She says worriedly, looking around as if she expected the temperamental teen to just randomly pop into existence.

"Uh… Riku? He, um, had to help his sister with something! Yeah, that's it!" Sora lies badly, looking into a bush where Riku and Roxas were currently crouching behind. He had pleaded both of them not to leave him behind when he gave his Valentine to Kairi.

Needless to say, the two enemies were currently fighting over the better viewpoint.

"I'm older and smarter than you… so I get it!" Riku hisses as he slams an elbow into Roxas's stomach, knocking the blonde over silently.

"You're half right." Roxas growls, grabbing Riku by the hair and throwing him to the ground so he could see what Sora was doing.

"Uh… Kairi, I learned something very interesting!" Sora says quickly and in an extra loud voice, trying to avert attention from the two fighting in the bushes.

"Hmm? What, Sora?" Kairi asks curiously.

"Well, in some places, it's not just the girl that gets to give Valentines out! The guys can, too!" Sora says nervously.

"Oh, that's nice." Kairi says as she waves to Selphie who had just appeared.

"And… I made you one." Sora finishes as Selphie starts walking towards them.

"Huh?" Kairi asks as Sora puts his handmade card into her bag.

"And… that's my lucky charm so be sure and take good care of it!" Sora says with a blush as he starts running as fast he could away from the girls.

And needless to say, that was pretty damn fast.


"You're such a wuss." Riku informs Sora when he enters the classroom.

Sora says nothing but keeps hiding underneath the hood of his jacket.

"And you should have seen Kairi's face when she saw what your "lucky charm" was." Riku continues teasingly.

"You owe me a new necklace." Sora informs him in a tone more suited for someone who had just been told that he had about a day left to live.

"Aw, come on! She was pretty happy when she got it." Riku continues in that same teasing voice, poking his miserable friend lightly on the head.

"I don't care. You still owe me a new one." Sora says in a monotone voice as he hides even further into his hood.

"Fine, be like that. Just don't be surprised when-" Riku starts to say when Kairi bursts into the classroom, grinning and blushing.

"Thank you, Sora!" She exclaims, hugging him and giving him a kiss on the cheek.


"Ugh…" Sora moans as he wakes up in the infirmary, wondering just why his head hurt so much.

"You dumbass." Riku groans from a chair by his bed, shaking his head and laughing hard.

"What happened?" Sora asks weakly, moaning from the dull pain shooting across his head every time he moved.

"You fainted and smacked your head on the desk." Riku laughs.

"… So what Kairi did. That wasn't…?" Sora asks sheepishly, already turning blood red.

"Yup. She actually did it." Riku chuckles.

"… HA! You owe me ten thousand munny!" Sora cheers as he sits up, falling back down almost immediately due to the pain.

"As if! That doesn't count as our bet being completed!" Riku snarls defiantly.

"Yes it does!" Sora says with a grin, rubbing his fingers together in a way that shows that he expected his munny soon.

And the moral of this story is… Sora's an idiot.

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!