A/N: YAY! Chapter 5 is here! Man, I had millions of ideas for this chapter, some weird, some very weird, some stunk, but after I FINALLY got into it, I found the perfect idea. It has a bit of a twist to it, though. Thank you to:

Disclaimer: I own Kingdom Hearts. Sora and Kairi are married and Riku is awesome. And not evil. But cute. I live on destiny islands and PWN you.

..Obviously, since none of this has happened, I don't own Kingdom Hearts. Don't sue me.

Lvkishugs- Yea, the heartless guy is scary.xD And Riku is awesome. Yesh. He is. And yes, its hard NOT to notice.xDD Man, your review made me laugh. Thanks!

Emerald31- LOL. Grandma's Chihuahua.

And to many others.

In this chapter, we will answer the age-old question:

How many licks DOES it take to get to the center of a Tootsie-pop?

On with the story!

Chapter 5: Back to Normal

After Riku had 'confronted' Sora, the next day, they both skipped up to Cloud, their arms linked, and grins spread across their faces. "Like hiiii Cloud!" Sora said in the girliest way possible, and let out a giggle, which made it even harder for Riku to hold in his laughter.

"Well, he's normal. Good job, Riku." Cloud stated, smirking. They un-linked arms and Riku grinned.

"Well, I am a genius."

Sora let out a cough that sounded like 'yearight'.

Riku shot him a glare, but said nothing.

Sora smiled. "Ok, now, let's get to class. We don't want to be late, do we?" Cloud laughed.

"Ok, come on."

In math class, the teacher was talking about some form of... math, and Sora and Riku were just waiting for the perfect moment to do something funny and un-expected. After the teacher stop scribbling on the board like no tomorrow, he turned around. "Any questions?"

Sora's hand shot up. "Uhm, Teach, I have one." He grinned a bit, and Riku and Cloud watched with wonder.

"Yes Sora?" "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie-pop?"

Riku, and the whole class for that matter, began to laugh.

Cloud controlled his laughter for a second to say "Yea, Sora, I wanta know!"

Sora grinned, and took out a cherry Tootsie-pop and un-wrapped it, and began licking it.

Fact: By the end of class, they had all learned it took exactly that it took 732 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie-pop.

Fact: Sora got detention.

Fact: Cloud and Riku had to be sent to the nurse's office because they had laughed so hard.

Cloud pulled Sora over with him and Riku at the end of class. They took one look at each other, and, as if they all had telepathic powers, knew what each other were thinking, and broke out in fits of laughter.

"Oh..man.." Cloud gasped between laughs. "That was classic!" He wiped tears forming in his eyes. Riku smirked. "Yea, Sora. Tootsie-pop. That so rocks." Sora nodded. "Thank you, thank you." He took a little bow, and grabbed an imaginary microphone. "I'd like to thank my mom, and my dad, and the maker of Tootsie-pops. Oh, and my brain. Which is currently on vacation."

They all laughed. "Well, we've known that for a LONG time, Sora." Riku said, knocking on Sora's head, which gave a slight echo.

Sora grinned. "I like that noise... Eccccchoooo..." Sora repeated the noise. "Come on, little-bit. We've gotta get to class."

"Say, Cloud..."

"Yea?"

"Why do you call me little-bit?"

The next few periods were awesome as well. Sora, Cloud, and Riku were finding more ways to irk the teacher. Cloud would answer questions in different languages, every-so-often Riku would send anonymous love-letters to the teacher in different handwriting without her knowing who it was, and Sora would occasionally throw a spitball or two, and they would all break out in a random song.

Kairi had watched Sora all day. Yes, all day. Well, all that she could, anyways. But she didn't know why. She was over him. Most of all, she felt extremely dizzy.

Shadow had pulled her aside for free period, and they had taken a little walk. At the end of the walk, Shadow had done something, but she couldn't place what. He had taken his hands in hers and mumbled something that resulted in a funny feeling in her stomach, and made her feel tired, and dizzy.

Kairi sighed and trudged on to her next class. It was hard, too. She couldn't stop thinking about everything. She felt bad about Sora, but Shadow made it feel better. And she didn't know why. But, most of all, her feelings seemed iced over a bit. Like she couldn't express any emotion.

Something was wrong. And she knew it.

But she wouldn't do anything about it.

Sora trudged his feet through the musty hallways, grinning like an idiot. Another detention. That made it... what, 4 detentions today? And it wasn't even lunch yet. Cloud and Riku had the same. Some were for acting like a cow. Others were for going to 'sleep' in class. One was blackmailing the principal by putting a picture of him and his teddy bear, sucking his thumb, in his underwear, at night, in a fetal position, and posting it on the school website for all to see.

Yup, it was a good day.

Sora had forgotten about Kairi completely. Sure, every now and then he would see her, but would just shrug it off. Besides, he had moved to bigger and better things. Like having fun and being a pervert. Ah, life was good.

The next week was pretty much the same. They got at least 13 detentions and had the time of their lives.

On Friday, Riku was walking to P.E., when he saw the strangest sight he could see.

Shadow and Kairi, but they were just holding hands.

Right?!

Riku followed them for a distance, until they finally stopped their walk. Kairi looked different, almost pale. And her eyes were no longer full of wonder and life, but iced over. Shadow whispered something, then left her.

At that moment, Kairi collapsed.

Fact: Riku freaked.

Fact: Riku ran.
Fact: After Riku ran, he realized he was being an idiot and that Kairi was probably ok by then.
Fact: Kairi wasn't ok.
Fact: Kairi had woken up, though.
Fact: Riku seemed to forget about it the next day.

Fact: Something was wrong.

Question: What was wrong?