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I awoke what seemed to me like hours later, but I knew it had only been a moment. Maybe I hadn't even fallen asleep, but just fallen out awareness temporarily. Kairi and Riku were talking in hushed voices, thinking I was asleep, I suppose; trying not to wake me.
"You still haven't answered me, Riku." Kairi said harshly.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Riku calmly said and the shuffling of feet on wood and my many years of being around Riku told me he had faced his back to her.
"You completely blew up at Sora—for no reason as far as I can see."
"I have my own reasons."
"Well then why don't you just tell me what those 'reasons' are."
"You wouldn't understand, Kairi." He tranquilly said, and then paused as if in thought. "There are things that went on before you were on Destiny Islands; things that happened between Sora and I that you will never know, or understand even if you did know."
The tone in Kairi's voice changed drastically and she sighed. "You're right, there are a lot of things that I don't know, but I'm not asking to know all that, Riku. I want to know why you got so mad at Sora."
It was Riku's turn to sigh. "Because," his voice revealed a tone of sadness, "he and I, before you were here, used to look at the stars every night; just the two of us." Riku, judging from the length of his pause, relived one of the many nights we had gone star gazing. "That was our special thing, something only the two of us did, something that was ours. It was my time with Sora, alone. As childish as that may seem, it was something that meant a lot. Everyone on that island doesn't see me the way Sora does even now.
"I was an outcast for some time after my mom died. I assumed responsibility for her death, though it wasn't my fault—Sora made me realize this. Before he coaxed me out of my shell, I blocked everyone from me. People may have thought I didn't hear what was said about me, but I did. I know what they thought—and still continued for some time—to think about me. They, too, blamed me for my mother's passing. It wasn't like they had ever cared for me to begin with, and it was only a show put on for my parents.
"Kairi you will never understand what that was like. To feel so unloved. To thin k that no one wanted you. I could have walked down—"
Riku fell silent, obviously amazed that he had told Kairi all of this so quickly and with such emotion that wasn't usually seen from him, and especially with anyone other than me. I was amazed too.
"Anyways," back to the normal Riku, I rolled my eyes though they couldn't see it. "This was Sora's and my game."
"Oh." Was all Kairi said in response. "I'm sorry, Riku, I didn't—"
"Forget it. We're all friends, and with out you we wouldn't even be on this raft. The sky wasn't made for Sora and me. It was made for us all; You, Sora, and me."
Kairi giggled "Yeah, all of us." That seemed to be the end of their conversation. Sleeping bags rustled on the bottom of the raft nearby. "But Riku, you need to say something to Sora tomorrow, he doesn't understand either."
I grinned at this. Riku apologizing? This would be something I would love to have on tape.
Steady breathing echoed over the ocean from Riku and Kairi, fast asleep, oblivious to lapping ocean waves against the raft. Stars twinkled above me, shimmering along side the moon, creating the most serene atmosphere I'd ever been in.
So Riku was jealous? That wasn't like him…perhaps it was just Kairi and I had, before we left, spent more time together than with him. I smiled to myself for figuring this one out. Tomorrow then would be some fun time for Riku and me, then. Well, maybe not tomorrow, but whenever we find land.
I slipped away into a quiet slumber till I was awoken the next morning.
"Sora! Sora, get up!" Kairi shook me awake grinning widely. "There's land coming up! We'll be able to go exploring within the next hour or so!"
I sat up sleepily slowly processing her words and excitement. Rubbing my eyes first, I gazed out into the ocean in front of us.
Rocks were sticking up from the surface of the water and getting more frequent. The sun was already fairly high in sky now; how long had I slept?
By now, the events from last night came flooding back in a tidal wave of thoughts as Riku called Kairi to his side. An exchange of whispers was all I could make out, no specific words, but it resulted in Kairi eagerly taking the command to steer the raft and Riku coming over next to me.
"Hey, Sora." He said as if nothing had happened the night before. "You want duel when we get to this new place?" He sat down next to me.
I frowned at him. I wanted to hear him apologize. *Let me be on top for once, come on Riku!* "What about last night?" I played as if I hadn't heard them talking last night, and I was worried about our friendship.
Riku gazed beyond me, as if choosing his words carefully.
"Last night was" he paused, "a mistake." He concluded.
"A mistake?" There was no way I was going to let him off with just that, I grinned internally. I was going to get an apology. He figured out what I wanted when his eyes met mine again, he read me like a book.
"Alright, alright, I shouldn't have just gone off on you like that." He said, I nodded imploring him to go on. He laughed lightly, probably wondering why it was he was being forced to go further. A small stare down took place and he faltered. "And I'm sorry, Sora."
I smiled brightly, letting him know clearly he was forgive and all would be forgotten quickly, and the momentary look of surprise on his face vanished quickly. I leaned close to his ear and whispered: "I heard you and Kairi last night."
Maybe that wasn't the smartest thing I could have done, or maybe it was, we'll never know now…
"What! You--! You little squirt! You heard all that and made me apologize? Why I ought to—"
I laughed and tried to wiggle out of my sleeping bag and scurry over to Kairi but was caught short when Riku lunged at me pushing me and himself over the side of Highwind in the process.
We came up sputtering and laughing, I was trying to swim away from Riku who, when he caught up with me, promptly dunked my head under the water, laughing. "I'll race you." He indicated with a nod of his head the land that was closer than we had thought.
I gave him my trademark grin before calling back to Kairi on the raft. "Me an' Riku are gonna race. See you when you get there!"
"One!"
"Two!"
Without another word, we both dashed off toward the newly discovered land. I swam with all my strength, and some I didn't even know I had, but I barely managed to keep even with Riku. He was a much stronger swimmer, even if I didn't want to admit it.
Riku, with a burst of speed in the end, got to the island first and laid down on the sand, and I collapsed next to him.
"Good….job," I managed out of breath.
"You too, you're getting much better, Sora "He said, with a steadier voice than I had and with a small laugh. I smiled again; this day seemed to be full of smiles.
Kairi arrived with the raft not long after we did, giving me just enough time to recover some strength and have that short conversation—if it could be called one—with Riku.
She giggled as she stepped off onto the sands of our new discovery. "So, how long are we staying here? Is this a new world? When do you think we'll—"
"Kairi" I laughed "we've only been here as long as you and know as much as you. We don't know all the answers!" I continued to laugh lightheartedly. It was good to laugh after last night, even though Riku and I had made up, it still stung what he had said…but he didn't mean it…right? Of course not I reassured myself; of course he didn't mean it.
The day passed lazily, from there. Riku and I dueled and raced some, then helped Kairi look for a few supplies so she could create a "feast of a dinner to celebrate our landing here," as my red headed friend had put it, who knows what she was going to do.
The fruits and vegetables of this new place were new and odd looking. One of the ones I found by accident was long and orange in the ground…quite the interesting little vegetable if I do say so myself.
The three of us ventured back to where we had landed leaving Kairi to cook after Riku managed to get a nice fire going. The sky was darkening above us already leaving me to wonder where the day had gotten to, it seemed so…short.
"Sora! Riku!" we were summoned back to the fire where Kairi had prepared a large dinner for us made with some of the supplies from home and the newly gathered ones.
Our fire crackled and the smell of salt water mingled with delicious scents of cooked fish and the other delicacies Kairi had created. It was so relaxing and wonderful. This is what I had really wanted all this time; to be with my friends on our own. I didn't need some evil force or enemy to fight with like I had thought I did back home. This was paradise.
I yawned and climbed into my sleeping bag next to the dieing embers. "What are we doing tomorrow?" I mumbled to my companions.
Kairi giggled and replied: "Tomorrow we can go exploring, right?"
"Maybe," Riku said, "we can plan to, but those clouds," he nodded off to the distance, "might put a damper on our plans."
"Rain?" I whined "why does it have to rain! It never rains, why does it have to rain now…"
My silver haired friend laughed lightly, "Maybe it won't rain because you tell it to, Sora." I clearly heard the smirk in his voice and punched him playfully in the shoulder.
"Let's get some sleep, guys; it's too late for a wrestling match between the two of you." Kairi rolled over to face away from me and Riku with a yawn.
"I'll get you tomorrow then, Sora." Riku whispered into my ear causing me to jump a little then smirk.
"Not if I have anything to with it." I challenged him back. I'll get you this time, Riku.
I drifted off to sleep anticipating the next day; rain or shine.
A/N: Ack, that didn't go exactly as it was supposed to. Oh well, I guess what I want to happen will happen the next day in the next chapter…by the time I realized I hadn't done what I wanted to, I'd already finished writing this chapter! :-P But anyway, please read and review, and I hope by the end of this chapter, Sora and Riku were back into character… *cries* what have I done? I've completely changed them!!
Phantazy : Is it a riku/sora story? Well, It is and it is not, if that helps. It is all left up to the mind, you can see the way they interact as something more than friendship, or just friendship. It can probably be read either way. It isn't intentionally Riku/Sora, though. If you'd like, maybe in the next chapter or something I could hint at something SoKairi…just tell me what you want, and I'll see what I can do within my general idea of what I'm doing. ~.^
Maxine: October!?!? Wow, that is a while…so they've worked things out now and there's nothing to worry about…right? Hmm we'll see ~.^
Dual Keyblade Master: Well, you'll have to tell me if they are portrayed correctly in the end of this ~.^, as since the beginning of this fic I was thinking I had them completely out of character, but many of you said I had their characters right down so tell me what you think!!
RIA: *laughs nervously* hopefully Riku's back to normal and all now, right? But I love Riku as much as I love Sora, so I wouldn't completely corrupt him, would I? *evil laughter* Thank you so much though for your review, it made me want to start writing more on this which I got around to amazingly enough!
PIcaRDMPC: Even if it only took a moment to think up, it's so much better than my old one, and I'm so happy I get to use it! I'm glad you're interested now, though, and I hope I keep hearing from you!!
Angel Bliss: Now you know what happens…I think anyway. J Yes, I definitely hope that this will be the second fic you read that is completed! ~.^
