Riku's POV:
Sora got back three hours later. Heh, looks like I get 10 bucks. Nah, I let her slide. She didn't have enough money at the time anyway. I really wish she'd stay with either me or Sora, it isn't safe to be sleeping on that plateau of an island all the time. But why should I talk? Me and the others have spent half our lives on that island, and I've basically been reckless. Well.. half of that was induced by Sora, we're always in competitions. It's a lot of fun, but I think I'm starting to annoy him. Right now, the scores 27 to 4.. In my favor.
After Sora returned, the 4 of us all sat out on the plateau. Sora and Kairi were sitting in the tree, and Nicole was climbing the tall tree to the left of the tree hanging over the island that currently seated Sora and Kairi. She made it to the top and started digging through the random fruits up in the tree. I stared across the ocean. Thinking.
"Riku.. I've been wondering. Why do you want to find out if there's other worlds or not?" Sora asked. I blinked and turned around, I came out of my thoughts and realized the question.
"Oh.. Well.. I think it's only logical there'd be other worlds.. I mean, do you think out of the whole universe there's only us? On our island?"
"Well obviously not, me and Kairi came from elsewhere." Nicole said.
"I'm just saying.. I want to know what's out there. Maybe we can find you and Kairi's home someday." I said, looking up at Nicole. She was already back to picking through the fruits. Kairi looked at me.
"Well, what would you do if you did find our home? Would you leave us there?"
"I.. haven't thought that through to much." I muttered. Sora was lying down on the tree now and yawned.
"I say we stick together. We ended up together in this world, when we could've ended up on ANY. I say that our encounters were meant to be." He said. I nodded.
"Yeah.. But we should leave that up to them. They might find it more pleasant there."
"I'm not sure how much I liked my old home, if I ran away from it." Nicole said. I hadn't taken that into consideration.
"Either way.. I hope we can find it. I doubt I'd even think about any of this stuff if you two hadn't come along." I said. Nicole smiled a little from her tree, and started climbing down.
"Riku, here." She handed me a star shaped fruit. The paopu fruit. I blinked and examined it.
"What's this for?"
"I thought it'd be funny if you gave it to Sora to share with someone." She said and grinned.
"Yeah, alright." I said and smiled. I saw Sora hopping from the tree and walking from the bridge. I ran over to him. "Hey Sora! Catch!" I tossed him the paopu.
"Huh? What's this?" Sora asked. I grinned.
"Paopu fruit. Whoever you share it with, you'll have a special bond with. Your destinies are forever intertwined." I smirked evilly. "Figured you might want one to share with Kairi."
"Huh? What's that supposed to mean?" Sora blinked. I laughed.
"You know what I'm talking about.."
"... No idea.." Sora snorted, choosing to ignore the comments now, and tossed the paopu to the ground. I laughed again. Typical Sora. I looked back to see Nicole sitting on her tree, staring at the sunset. I blinked.
"Staying out here again, Nicky?" I shouted over to her from the bridge. She looked back.
"Yeah. I think so. I'll see you tomorrow then. We set sail in two days, I can't wait." She smiled at him.
"Alright then. Stay safe. Later." I jumped off the bridge and landed in the sand, taking a last glance at her, then went over to the dock where my boat was.
Nicole's POV:
The next day, Riku, Sora, and I were sitting on the dock, waiting on Kairi. I got impatient and said,
"Man, where the hell is she?" I snapped slightly. Sora blinked.
"Nicky.." Sora began, "Chill.. We can't start without her, she's our friend, we got to wait."
"Yeah.. I know, but I'm just getting irritated.. She's always late."
"Yeah, I know Nicole, but still, we have to wait." Riku said. I looked at him and gave him it's just because you two have the hots for her look. He read it well and stuck his tongue out at me. I rolled my eyes and changed the subject.
"I can't wait 'till we take off tomorrow.. It'll be great, don't you think?"
"Yeah.." I said. "I hope we don't get caught in a storm or something."
"Don't jinx us." Sora said. I grinned.
"Oh, what are the odds of something like that happening? It's about as likely as our island suddenly disappearing from the universe."
I got a weird feeling after I said that... But I chose to ignore it.
Short chapter unforturnatly.. But I'm rewriting all of them and this is what I edited. Just be happy I took out the Kairi bashing. =/ Next chapter on the way, be patient.
