Eeehhmm….Sorry the first chapter was so short! ^^; It's my first ficci I've actually gained the courage to put up on FF.net. And it's NOT a Kairi/Riku fic, I swear! ; Just keep reading. Thankees!

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"Heya Riku!" Kairi waved her arms high in the air, eagerly trying to get her silver-haired friend's attention.

Unable to avoid such loud wailing, Riku turned his head around, giving Kairi a quick smile, instinctively waving her over.

"I thought I'd catch you up here." Kairi giggled.

"Ehm...yeah…" Riku nodded quickly, and folded his arms; his back leaned against the bent paopu tree. He didn't have much to say to Kairi, after all.

Kairi's grin turned serious.         

"Umm, am I bothering you?" She asked, praying with all her heart that wasn't it.

Riku didn't respond for a few seconds, which made Kairi uneasy. Even Riku wasn't the type to just come right out and say, 'yeah, you're bothering me' to a girl. He just kept his cool, as always, and stood facing close to her, his back straight and away from the paopu tree.

"Well," he started, with a swift stroke through his hair, "no…"

Kairi let out a huge sigh of relief she'd been holding. Riku just blinked, and continued.

"I've just been thinking…"

"Oh, again…?" Kairi laughed to thin some of the tension she felt between them.

"Yeah, again…but really, what's wrong with that? This island is so…boring."

Kairi shrugged, as if trying to show Riku a 'how many times have I heard this' expression. She walked over to the edge of the highly lifted hill, and sat down to kick her feet off into the air, dangling a good distance away from the water below her.

"….What are you doing?" Riku managed to ask with curiosity.
           

Another giggle from Kairi.

"I'm thinking." She responded.

Unsure if her last comment was supposed to be a joke or not, Riku sat down next to her, and gave it a second or two, watching the sand from their feet splash silently into the glimmering water.

"Thinking…huh, you too?"

"Hehe…yup."

Riku continued to focus more attention on the water than Kairi's goofing off. He was serious about what he said, unlike her.

"About what, Kairi?"

"Well…I was just thinking…it would be nice to get off this island…"

Riku lifted his head and looked over at her.

"…But if I had to stay on this island forever…well, that'd be okay, too! I couldn't be more happy with you…oh, a-and Sora." She added, with cheeks a bit flushed.

Kairi noticed none of this seemed interesting to Riku, and took the opportunity to lean her head on his shoulder.

 "Oooh I'm tired." She giggled.

Riku sweatdropped. It annoyed him that Kairi had seemed to be flirting so much with him, lately. Couldn't they all just be friends? And did he really give off something that made Kairi think he liked her back? Riku shuddered. He didn't really want to be that close to her.

A loud smack from what seemed to be wood startled both of them, and Riku quickly moved to the other side of the hill, leaving Kairi to fall in the sand. Kairi, of course, was disappointed, but followed and leaned over Riku to get a glimpse of what was going on.

"W-what is it?" She stuttered, still dusting some sand sticking to her skin.

Riku laughed a bit, and pointed off on the shore not too far away from the hill they were currently watching from.

"It's Sora and Tidus…they were having another match today.

Kairi laughed as well, shaking her head, while Riku was thanking the two brawling boys below in his mind for saving him from that uncomfortable moment with Kairi.

"Tidus never learns, does he?" Kairi said while taking a seat on the paopu tree.

"Neither does Sora…he exaggerated about that last fight to you, didn't he?" Riku chuckled.

"Oh…he said he won, no sweat."

Riku laughed again, shaking his head.

"He won by just a hair. Sora's strong, but Tidus and Sora both aren't too bright. They have no strategy whatsoever. They both just attack head on."

Kairi paused, while Riku was still laughing.

"Well that's not nice." She laughed nervously.

"But you know it's true."

Riku continued laughing, watching the amusing expressions on the boy's faces below them every time they were whacked upside the head. And thinking about the times he had made Sora make those faces brought him to the borderline of hysterical laughter.

Kairi, however, was pouting, unknowingly. She'd never seen Riku so…happy. Of course she liked to see him laughing, but she'd always gotten the feeling he liked Sora more than her. She'd seen his smile plenty of times before, but it never looked like that. So carefree and gentle…

Kairi took a step back, trying to sneak away, but caught a tree root and fell smack into the warm sand. She was hurt and embarrassed.

Riku pulled himself away from watching the fight for a second, and swirled around to Kairi.

"You alright?" He asked, with what didn't seem to be much concern at all to Kairi.

"I...I'm fine…I'll see you later, o-okay?" She sniffed, trying to hold back any silly tears.

"Alright…sure."

Kairi immediately tore off into the opposite direction, running down the dock and through the shack. She, herself, was surprised she'd gotten so worked up over something so silly, really. It could just be all in her mind. It's not like anyone actually told her what she thought was true…

Riku watched her the whole way, even when she ran out of the shack to get to the door leading to the other side of the island. He shrugged, not sure what to make of it. Did he see tears dripping from her eyes…? It couldn't have been, Kairi doesn't cry from a little bit of sand.

"Hey Riku!" A frustrated voice called out from below him.

"Eh?"

Sora stood at the edge of the mound, with one hand place on his hip, and the other flailing his wooden sword every which way. The brown haired boy raised his forearm not too long after to wipe away the sweat on his forehead.

Riku smiled teasingly.

"Hiii…" He waved lazily.

"Rrgh, you made me LOSE!" Sora thrusted the wooden sword into the sand beside him.

"I made you lose?" Riku exclaimed with a mocking tone in his voice.

"Yeah…When I turned my head, there you were, watching my every move, and Tidus got a good swing at me!" Sora then pulled his baggy shorts aside to reveal a deep wound on his leg.

"What's wrong with me watching you?" Riku casually slid back out of Sora's sight atop the hill.

"You just…make me nervous!  I feel like you're grading me or something. Riku…Riku are you even listening to me…?" Sora sighed, refusing to get too angry.

Riku waited a few seconds for Sora to start yelling something up at him again, but everything was totally silent. He pulled out of his relaxed position and peeked over the hill.

Erk…I feel like a little kid spying…  Riku sweatdropped and looked around.

            Sora had already taken off somewhere, and Tidus was back to his original area.

            "…Great, where'd he take off to?"

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Eherm, that's all for now. ::bow bow:: Gomena, It didn't end up being as long as I'd of liked it to be, but I wanted to get another chapter up before I took off to a shoot! Please keep checking for new chapters. ^_^;;