Chapter 3: Everlasting promise
by: Kurai Muso-ka
(co-author: ObsidianSorrows)
Disclaimer: Sorry folks... these characters belong to their very talented and respectful owners/creators.
a/n: I'm back again for my third chapter... sorry it took so long.. I have end of school Finals and other projects due.... and I'm studying like crazy! So please forgive me if this chapter sucks... I'll make it up to you guys!! I promise to put more plot into the next chapter... and to make it extra long! Thanks to all those people who reviewed! I'm really happy! (since this is my first story and all) Sorry to all those people who read my long and boring reviews. The people who write those reviews are my friends... ::sighs:: My 'sane' friend, ObsidianSorrows, (also an author on Fanfiction.net) is assisting me in writing this story. So special thanks to her!! well... for your convenience.. here is my third chapter: "Everlasting promise." Please R+R!! Thanks!! ~Chao ^_~
We leave our story with Sora still in the ocean and Riku and Kairi waiting for him on the right side of the cliff on the beach. Riku and Kairi chanting Sora's name into the night, they start to worry about their friend. Willingly Riku decides to go in after Sora and see if he's alright.
"Riku, be careful!! Please return with Sora safely!!" Kairi shouted from the ground as Riku headed towards the small waves licking the sand. His bare feet made imprints in the damp sand as he turned to face Kairi.
"Of course.... I promise." Riku lifted his shirt above his head and dove in the icy-cold water. His skin was numbing with the intense cold that swept over him. Riku continued to swim, his head bobbing up and down with the waves. He couldn't see him anywhere.
"Sora!! You bone-head! Where are you?! Common Sora!" Riku continued to yell his name while trying to keep the salt water out of his mouth and staying above the water. With difficulty, he treaded water in the now raging waters of the ocean. "Stupid tide." He mumbled as yet another wave crashed over his head. Meanwhile... back on shore (on the left side of the cliff) Sora lay on his back gasping for air.
"I'm never going to do that again.." He groaned. He had water in his throat and he was freezing. (still had no clothes on) "Dammit...."
"SORA!!" Kairi's scream rang in his ears. Kairi came running down the beach towards him. Sora was ready to duck and cover from the immense tidal wave of anger that Kairi was going to pour over him. But as she approached him, her angered face softened to a toothy grin.
"I guess we're even now, Sora." She pointed down to his bare body. "This pays back for that time you saw me naked and for all those times you teased me!!" She fell to the ground in a fit of giggles, clutching her stomach. "Besides you lazy bum, I knew I'd find you laying around here some where. You got us all worried!" Sora made small effort in trying to cover his nakedness, but finally noticed that one of them was missing.
"Where's Riku?!"
"Oh him?! Hahaha. He's in the water looking for you! He was as worried as i was... it was like he actually cared about you."
"Wow.... I've never seen the day that Riku actually turned soft." They both laughed.
"Oh and here." Kairi threw him his clothes. "You might need these." Sora caught them and slipped his pants on.
"Ahh.. That's better."
"You'd better dry up... or else you're gonna get sick." Kairi beckoned him to follow her back to camp.
"Naw... I think I'll just stay here all night and die." Sora said in a tone of sarcasm.
"Common' you lazy bum. You're going to come with me or else I'm going to have to stay here and die with you." A smile was visible on Kairi's face in the faint light of the moon. Sora gave in and they both made their way back to camp.
"What about Riku?! Should we leave him?"
"Well... he'll figure it out sooner or later... he isn't that dull. Besides... I don't want to deal with him right now. I'm to tired. Plus, I'm freezing!!"
"I told you. You should've dried up sooner!! You're so lazy." (A/N: boy does that sound familiar!) Sora turned to face her.
"Sorry." He mumbled. Kairi was taken a back. Sora?! Apologizing!?! This couldn't be right. Kairi put on a stern face. This isn't Sora.
"What did you say?! Did you just apologize to my face?!" Sora nodded solemnly. "What did you do with Sora?!! You aren't Sora! You just look like him! You're probably his evil twin!!" Sora grabbed Kairi's shoulders and shook her violently.
"Kairi! Kairi, calm down.. it is me. I'm Sora! Get hold of yourself. I said I was sorry for being so lazy all the time. And I really mean it this time. Honestly." Kairi looked at him and pushed his arms away from her.
"Yeah. I knew it was you... I just didn't want to believe it. And you shouldn't be sorry. That would be me." Sora tilted his head in confusion... a dazed look etched across his face. "You see... I've been having these weird thoughts lately. Like, is any of this real; or not? (A/N: now it's REALLY starting to sound familiar, huh?!) I mean.. this all still seems like a dream. How can I actually get away from all that pain and sorrow those people brought to me.. and have such a great life here?! It's like this was actually planned... like it was supposta' happen. Like it was meant to be.. for me to meet you." Sora beamed.
"Oh Kairi..." Sora walked over and wrapped his arms around her. Kairi's head rested against Sora's chest, listening to his heart beat in time with her own. Sora whispered in her ear. "Kairi.... I love you. I've loved you since the first time I saw you...." Tears filled Kairi's eyes.
"I love you too, Sora." Tears streamed down her face, dampening Sora's shirt. Sora tilted her face up and wiped her tears. A smile formed on both of their faces. They headed back to their rooms.
"Wow, look at the moon Sora! It's huge!" Kairi yelled excitedly, pointing to the sky. Sora nodded and hugged her from behind.
"Yea. It's beautiful... like you. Only you're prettier." Kairi raised an eye brow.
"I've never expected this from you, Sora. You seemed like the type of guy who's clumsy and lazy. But really, you're actually pretty sweet and charming."
"And you're flattering." Sora butted in. "Oh, weren't you gonna talk to your parents again today?"
"Naw, I think I'll do that tomorrow. Besides, I want to go to sleep. All that worrying about you and yelling your name all night made me tired." Kairi turned and started to limp back to camp. Sora wasn't going to let to go that easily.
"Wait, Kairi!" She turned and gave him a quizzical look. Hurriedly, Sora tried to find a believable excuse for stopping her.
"Uh.. uh.... err.... well." He scratched his head. (like all embarrassed anime boys do) Kairi raised an eye brow.
"Yes Sora? Is it that hard to ask me a question?! It's not like you're gonna ask me if you can sleep with me or anything.... right?" Her eyes bore into his, willing him to answer her. Sora started to stammer uncontrollably.
Sora's P.O.V.-
'Shit.... I know I want to... but I can't! I won't!! But.... I know I'll regret this for the rest of my.... Dammit... why am I talking to myself?!! Well actually I'm not.. I'm thinking to myself... that's different.' He sighed as Kairi (still standing there, waiting for his answer) watched him deep in thought. 'I know she loves me.. and I love her too. But what if she's lying?! Her voice sounded serious though. I could remember it like it was 1 minute ago.'(actually.. it was 1 minute and 30 seconds. ^_^)
Flashback:
"I love you too, Sora!"
End of Flashback.
'And even Riku told me that she liked me!'
Flashback:
"She has feelings for you, dildo!!"
End of flashback:
'Well.... he kinda told me. But still... even Riku noticed!! Am I really that dense to not figure out that she really does love me? Or maybe I'm just to worried about looking good in front of her that I forget the true meaning of love. Damn... I hate it when Riku's right.'
As Sora stood there, still "thinking" to himself, Kairi started to get impatient. She was already using her left hand to hold up her limp head, since she had already been using her right arm, which had gotten numb over the 10 minutes of watching Sora. Her foot, anxiously, taping away. It was quite amusing to her, watching Sora just stand there (half naked) in his own little world (Sora Land), scratching his chin occasionally, thinking to himself. (I know you all can picture that!) Not wanting to interfere with Sora's unknown thoughts, she unnoticeably sat down on the sand and continued to watch Sora.
'Where if your conscience when you need them?!" All of a sudden (in Sora's mind of course) two imaginary, miniature Sora's appeared on his shoulder. Sora jumped a foot in the air and screamed.
"Who are you?!" Sora wondered a loud. "You look exactly like me!!" He looked back and forth between a mini Sora with an angel costume and then to one in a devil costume.
"It's because we are your conscience! What did you think?!" The one in red yelled from his right. "We're here to give you advise about that girl over there."
"And how we should help you to take care of your situation." A voice added from his left shoulder.
"Oh, I see. So what should I do?!" Sora responded. Sora's devil form spoke first.
"I think you should fuck her now while you have the chance. I mean who knows when Riku will make his move on her, since she's the only female on the island. He might not be able to control his lust.... if he even has any. Plus you don't know if she wants to go back to Japan and find her parents anytime soon! So I think you should go for it!!" Sora's other conscience butted in irritably.
"Excuse me?! That's a very wrong way to solve this situation. I propose that you should wait and ask her how she feels about the idea of having intercourse with you. Also you have to consider the thought yourself."
"Could you stop using big words?" Sora's right argued. "What's with all this, "as first" business?! I think he should do what ever he wants, especially if a girl's involved!! Jeez. We're your sense of dignity?!"
"Guys please stop arguing! I still don't know what to do. You guys are confusing me. Besides I'm not even sure if she really loves me!!" Both miniature Sora's anime dropped. (or whatever you call it)
"You idiot!! She loves you! How dense can you be to not figure that out!?!?!"
"I have to agree with him this time." His left confessed. "He does have a point you know."
Kairi was really amused now. She watched as Sora looked back and foth between his shoulders, talking to imaginary people out loud, forgetting that she was sitting five feet away from him. Kairi smiled at Sora's stupidity as she continued to observe Sora's actions.
"Hurry up and make your decision. We can't be here all night ya' know." Sora was rushing to find words to say. (usually when Sora is panicking, he wets himself. But I'll make an exception here) Finally, out of all the frustration and confusion that Sora has been keeping bottled up inside, (during the whole 45 minutes of talking to his imaginary conscience) Sora yelled out loud, "FINE! I'LL SAY IT! I WANT TO FUCK YOU KAIRI!!"
Kairi nearly jumped out of her skin. Sora (finally) noticing that Kairi had been sitting there the whole time, blushed furiously. "Uh.... have you been listening to me this whole time?"
"How can I not hear you?! Geez. People on the main land probably heard you!" She stood up and brushed the sand of her butt. "Now I'm extremely tired. I never knew watching you talk to yourself could be so exhausting. God. If you hadn't just yelled out that you wanted to fuck me, you probably would be talking to yourself all night." Sora looked down at his feet, even more embarrassed than before.
"Sorry." He muttered. Kairi smiled sheepishly.
"Is it true? That you want to have sex with me?" Sora nodded solemnly. Kairi smiled mischievously. "Ok then." Sora looked up, surprised. "But you better not do that "talking to your conscience" thing again! It gets pretty dull after a while." Sora agreed and followed Kairi to his room. (poof)
"Way to go Sora! You really take the cake this time!" Sora's mini devil popped up suddenly and punched him in the head playfully. (poof)
"I have to agree. You've really expressed yourself this time!"
"Hey! I thought you were against the idea of having sex with her!!" His right said mockingly.
"Well.... I didn't necessarily say that he shouldn't do it, did I?!!"
"Shuttup you two!" Sora yelled. Kairi turned.
"What did you say Sora?"
"uhh.... I have to poo?" Kairi, suspicious of his conscience talking, giggled.
"Whatever."
A loud banging house resounded though the house as Riku, who was soaking wet, slammed open the front door, dripping water all over the floor. His hair was plastered to his face, with pants plastering themselves to his skin. His shirtless chest looked extremely pallid, and the silver-haired boy had to battle with himself to keep himself from chattering his teeth.
"Do.. you.. have...any...idea...how...cold it is out there!!" he had to yell the last part a little louder than usual. Sora smiled sheepishly, placidly placing his hands behind his head like Wakka.
"Sorry, but we figured you needed it. Besides, you should be thanking us. Get too tan and you'll have to fight Selphie off with a stick!"
Riku glared death daggers at the brunette, wanting to strangle him.
"Where did you get the idea that Selphie liked me anyways?" he asked as he trudged over to the cupboard, determined to find some hot chocolate. Maybe it would wear off the effects of the cold, since Sora and Kairi were too busy flirting their heads off with each other to notice that he was freezing his buns to hell out there.
"I dunno," Sora said. "I just think it's funny to see your reaction. Besides, she said you were hot."
"She says that about every guy!" Riku grumbled, digging around the shelves. "Do we have any hot coco for crying out loud!?"
"Riku, you should just go to sleep," Kairi offered. "Besides, I don't think we have any hot chocolate."
"I heard you guys out there," Riku suddenly said, smirking. "Or rather, I heard Sora and his little ramblings to his dick."
"I WAS NOT TALKING TO MY DICK, RIKU!" Sora yelled, emabarrassed. How bad could he get? He had just confessed his love to Kairi, and here Riku comes, stating it as if he ALWAYS talked to his...weenie.
"You were talking to your shoulders," Kairi pointed out. Sora made a face. So she didn't know he was talking to his "consciences".
"So, I guess now the whole island knows that you want to do Kairi," Riku said, before bursting into hysterical laughter. Kairi blushed like no tomorrow.
"Uhhhh," she stuttered. "I-I think I'll go to sleep now.." She stumbled up the stairs, almost falling over from embarrassment when Riku started to laugh again.
"So," Riku ventured once the red-head was safely in her room. "You really want her?"
"Yeah. So? So do you!"
"Oh, Sora, stop prevaricating. I don't like her. Well, ya, I do, but not the way you do. At least I don't want to take her virginity!" Sora pouted.
"But-"
"But what? Did your devil tell you that I wanted her too?"
"Ok, how did you know that." Riku laughed, sounding completely amused.
"You told me that Sora, when we were kids. You said that you were hearing voices, and I told you it was the demon and the angel on your shoulders. But I didn't think you'd believe even now."
"Neither did I." Sora confessed doubtfully. "I think I should be getting to sleep too. I'm exhausted. See ya." Sora waved and trudged up the stairs.
Sora walked down the wooden walkway towards his room. Upon approaching it, he stopped at Kairi's door. He pushed the door open silently and peered in. Kairi was sitting on her windowsill looking outside, her hair blowing freely in the wind. Sora stood there in the doorway watching her... observing her soft delicate skin to her deep violet eyes.
"Sora.... tell me, we're you just joking back there?" Kairi asked, not looking at him... but sensing he was there. Sora jumped out of his thoughts. Kairi asked again more demandingly, "Where you just trying to make me feel better by making a joke out of it?!!"
"What are you talking about, Kairi?!"
"Do you really love me?! Please tell me the truth Sora.... Please.." Sora walked over to her and put his hand on her shoulder.
"Kairi.... you have no idea. I want you.... I want to be with you forever.... please believe me when I say that I truly love you Kairi." Kairi turned to face him and Sora saw tears in her eyes.
"I don't want to believe it... I can't. I just don't want to lose you...." She lunged into his arms sobbing into his chest. "Don't ever leave me..."
"Kairi... I'll never leave you... how many times do I have to tell you? You're the person who I'll ever love." Kairi backed away to look at him.
"Can you promise me something?"
"Anything Kairi... just name it."
"Just promise me that whatever happens in the future.... that I'll always be with you.... and that you'll never leave me.... promise?" Sora nodded.
"Yes.... I promise."
"Sora.... What would happen if I went back to that other world to find my parents? Will they still love me? Would you still love me?" Sora chuckled.
"Of course they'll still love you. Parents never stop loving their kids... even if they tried. Just promise me you're not going to leave me here with Riku. I think he likes me."
"Hahaha. Stop joking, Sora. What about you? Will you go back for your parents?" Sora's brow furrowed as he began to think quietly.
"I... I don't know. I'm not sure if I want to see them again.. after what they did to me." Sora managed to smile. (That's Sora... always so cheerful) "But can you promise me something...." Kairi accepted with a simple smile. " Just... please stop crying. Or, at least try to cry less often." Kairi laughed as Sora changed the subject.
"No.... I won't... I'll cry forever.... I'll make a river of tears and drown myself."
"Not if I can help it...." Sora yelled and clutched Kairi in his arms and threw her on her bed. "You'd better not kill yourself... or else you're gonna face the consequences!" Sora took out a miniature model of his keyblade and gestured it towards Kairi's sides. Kairi screamed as Sora began to tickle her.
"Don't!!!! Stop, Sora!!" Kairi couldn't breath. She laughing and screaming while Sora continued to pursue his promise.
"Did you say 'don't stop?!' OK!!!" Sora began to tickle more of her squirming body.
"Sora!!!! STOP!!!" Sora got on top of her and straddled her waist. He looked down at her.
"I'll never stop.... not unless you'll promise me that you'll stop crying." His lips curved into an unmistakable smirk and Kairi couldn't refuse.
"Fine.... but you're still a lazy bum." Kairi said, also grinning.
"But just think, I'm your lazy bum."
"Yeah... and you're mine...." Sora leaned over and kissed her on the lips.
"Good night Kairi..."
"Good night..." The brown haired teen brought a cotton blanket over the sleeping red-head's delicate body. He sat there and watched her sleep silently as he, too, started to drift into unconsciousness.
A/N: Yea that's basically the end of the chapter. I apologize again for the shortness of this chapter... I vow to make my next twice as long. Wish me luck on my Finals... and Obsidian too! Please review and suggestions are welcome as well. I need as much help as I can. I'm brain dead. I want to know what you would like to happen... and I'll work to the best of my abilities to please you guys! Thanks again for reading!!! See you in the next chapter!!!!!