Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to this…;)

A/N: I'm changing the ages of Riku and Rikku around, since this takes place a few months after the "perfect ending" in Final Fantasy X-2, in which Rikku is 17…I wanted to make Riku 16, even though he's 15 in Kingdom Hearts…lets just say he had a birthday…

Riku: My birthday? Did you get me a present?

Me: umm, no it's your quote un-quote "birthday"…but you can have this…half pack of gum?

Riku: Score!

Gippal: I'm so bored... why are you keeping me locked in your closet again?

Me: heh (sweat drop) I think I'll start the story now…

Riku: this gum won't blow bubbles…

I don't know why I didn't scream. I just let him take me. His voice was low and soothing and my heart started to pound. I realized I was getting abducted. He left his hand over my mouth and pulled at my hand dragging me down a small alleyway in Hallow Bastion.

About three hours later…

I must have blacked out I woke up on a cot in the middle of a large room. There were now windows. I looked around and saw Riku sitting in a chair reading something. Nobody else was in the room.

"Looks like somebody finally woke up." His voice seemed a lot softer then it had when he was yelling at Sora earlier.

"Why did you take me?" I asked him, why was I even here in the first place? Maybe he knew.

"Because you let me. You wanted to come with me." His blunt response confused me. It sounded like something I had heard before.

"But why did you want me here? Why did you try in the first place?" I asked him, urging him for some kind of explanation.

"Must we be so dense?" he stood up and opened a door and exited the room. I heard a lock click behind him. He had left me here with nothing but my thoughts.

(Tidus' POV)

"Paine I haven't heard Rikku talking in awhile? Is she still back there with you?" I kept my eyes forward scanning the sewer for the likely trap that the soy-sauce footprints was most likely leading to.

"Tidus Sora. We had a bit of a problem. Rikku is missing." Paine's voice didn't even suggest a hint of worry. I wondered how she could be like that. I can tell you one thing though she is awesome at poker.

"Rikku is missing?" Sora's voice echoed Paine. He sounded hurt, as if someone had stabbed him in the heart or something.

"She could be anywhere; we've been following this trail for hours…" I let my voice trailed off. Now Rikku was probably missing. She was probably with Yuna. Somewhere I knew Yuna was in this world. She was here for a reason and so was I. And although her reason was unknown my purpose here was clear…I was here to save her.

(Rikku's POV )

I sat across from Riku at a small table. He had come back to this room after about two hours. He had brought with him a bowl of soup and he set it in front of me. I was still refusing to eat it.

"Rikku you're going to grow weak if you don't eat." He whined to me, he'd been trying to get me to eat the soup for about an hour.

"I'm not hungry and I don't trust your food." I whispered. He looked frustrated with me and ran his fingers through his silvery hair. I gulped a little and then I blushed.

"So, Rikku…how old are you?" He was staring intently at my hair, for some reason. I grew self-conscience and started twisting my hair around my fingers.

"Seventeen." I said shortly. He raised his eyebrows and stood up, walking over towards me. He stood behind me and I couldn't see him without turning my head around. I chose to stare into my soup.

"I'm sixteen." He whispered into my ear softly. I jumped at the voice and lunged forward onto the table, spilling my soup all over my only clothes.

"Thanks for scaring me." I huffed while using the napkin Riku handed me. I wasn't sure why I was so angry, maybe because he said his age as if he was in a porn flick or maybe because I had actually responded in an…embarrassing way.

(Yuna's POV)

Where was I…am I. I remember being at a sleepover with Rikku and Paine…and that Pizza guy! My surroundings were strange and unfamiliar. Looking around I was I was in the center of a hallway.

I'm laying on a stone platform. I'm freezing. Looking around there are about five, six, maybe even seven other girls here…laying on stone platforms as well. We're all chained to the platforms, someone else is here too. I can her voices coming from a door nearby…

(Rikku's POV)

"Umm, thanks again for loaning me this shirt." I sat on the cot uneasily wearing Riku's tight yellow shirt. He shrugged and walked over to the small window, staring out longingly.

"No problem." He muttered. Then he turned away from the window and sat down at the table, eating all the soup left in the bowl after my spill. I guess it wasn't drugged afterall.

"So…why are you here?" I said, trying desperately to strike up a conversation.

"I was looking for someone. Turns out I don't really want to find them anymore. Besides, my world has been destroyed. I managed to escape, I have no where to go." He started making his way over to the window again and I watched him. Sleep tugged relentlessly at my eyelids and I began to succumb to sleep.

"Rikku! Rikku are you even listening to me?" I smiled at a fifteen year-old Gippal. We were getting ready to go to the school's Freshmen dance. Gippal had just asked me something about if I liked his tux.

"Marvelous darhhling!" I smiled and giggled my fourteen-year old butt off. Then he threw his arm around me and we began walking…

Suddenly Gippal was replaced with Riku, he had his arm around me and we were still making our way to the car for the freshmen dance. He tagged me and I chased after him in my heels. I fell because I tripped and we laughed our heads off…

Why were my memories of Gippal being replaced with Riku?

The next morning…

I woke up with a sore back on account of the horrible cot. I began rubbing the knots in my muscles out and let out a low moan from the pain. How was I supposed to live here and sleep on this for…who knows how long?

"Sleeping beauty finally decided to wake up. Want some pancakes?" Riku smiled at me and I smiled in spite of myself. So what if I had a freaky dream about him? It's not like it was his fault.

"You know Rikku; I had the weirdest dream last night. You'll never believe this, I had this dream that you and I were in the circus…" I didn't listen as he babbled on about me having flame breathe and him taming lions. I was too busy thinking about the fact that we had both dreamt of each other on the same night. But wasn't I supposed to be dreaming about Gippal…only Gippal? He was my boyfriend and we were "in love"…maybe fate was taking a cruel turn on me.

(Tidus POV)

We have been walking down this trail for what, 24 hours now? And we have gotten nowhere. Instead we have lost a party member. All I really want is to see Yuna…I want to see her…

"Tidus, a door." Paine spoke up from behind me, causing me to jump slightly at the non-threatening tone in her voice. Paine had been acting out of character for the past couple of hours.

"I say we go inside, we've been following this path forever…" Sora whined. I nodded in agreement and Paine slowly opened the heavy wooded door. Stepping through we found ourselves in a sort of lift shop. There were machine-like objects flying around and stopping at different points. Sora stepped onto one and gestured for us to do the same.

"Gippal would love to check out this stuff." I muttered under my breathe, Paine heard me.

"Maybe he's already seen it. Maybe we're close to finding them." Paine answered.

"Maybe…maybe."

Sora spun around and ran off the lift when it arrived at the upper-level floor. I walked off and saw buttons you pressed in order to raise and lower large platforms.(A/N: you know in Hallow Bastion when you have to raise and lower this heart-platform thingy in order to get up the Castle Chapel and fight Malcifent…yea) Sora began the tedious task.

"Shouldn't be much longer now, I can feel that they're close by." Sora whispered to himself, but I overheard. My heart sped up with the idea of seeing Yuna once again.

(Rikku's POV)

"There's a balcony, do you mind if I go out on it?" I was getting bored from sitting inside this musty room all day. It reminded me of the temple in Bevelle.

"I'm coming with you." Riku stood up and walked over to the door leading onto a grand balcony slowly.

"Suit yourself." I simply stated as I opened up the French doors and let in a breeze of cool air. I had forgotten how humid and hot I had been for the past day.

"The air is nicer out here." Riku said as he gazed out over the horizon. Then something in the distance caught his eye. Something glittering in the sunshine. He squinted in an attempt to see what it was.

I looked over the balcony railing too and I saw something small in the distance. The thing seemed to be moving. I squinted and gasped. The figure looked a lot like…Gippal! As the person moved closer I had a clear view. It was Gippal and he was carrying some kind of machina weapon that was catching a glimmer in the sunlight. Suddenly Riku grew frustrated and ushered me back inside, but not without a bit of a fight from me.

"Riku I want to see who that guy is." I whined and he continued forcing me back inside the hot sticky room.

"No, I think he may be dangerous. We didn't bring him here, he was a mistake." Riku scratched the back of his head and sat on the edge of my cot, resting his head in his hands.

"You brought me here? You did this?" I asked, my eyes growing wide.

"It wasn't supposed to be anyone but the summoner and her boyfriend. The rest of you are mistakes." Riku muttered, at first I was surprised that he actually answered my questions.

"What? And just why exactly did you want Yunie and Tidus to come here in the first place? And I am not a mistake!" I screamed into his face. I really wanted to stress my points; I was in the mood for answers.

"I'm not sure what they want with them…it was the only way I could save Kairi. She doesn't even care; the only guy she ever thinks about is the stupid Sora. He's such an idiot too; she is making a huge mistake. I nodded it was obvious he was, or had been, in love with his friend's girlfriend. No wonder they didn't get along to well.

"I'm sorry." I said, trying to show some sympathy for him, after all you catch more flies with honey then you do with vinegar, right? If I wanted any answers out of Riku I had to be nice to him.

"Thanks, but you shouldn't get involved in any of this. I've already told you too much." He started to walk away and I felt my heart pounding. Something inside me was telling me to go against everything and reach out to Riku, to kiss him.

"Riku," I said quietly I walked over to him and tilted my chin upward. I kissed him softly on the lips and he responded…not so softly. We were suddenly thrown together in a deep kiss. I felt my body shaking and my heart beating wildly, but still the sensation was so wonderful I couldn't stop it.

When we finally broke apart, gasping for air, I heard a familiar male's voice speaking to me. "Rikku?"

A/N: I got the idea for Rikku/Riku fluff romance partly from my friend and partly from reviewer Cute-Kitty, who I want to thank specially. I wasn't sure whether anyone would be comfortable with the whole idea but once I got the review I was like, what the hell I'll go for it.
Anyways I have some cookies baking in the oven, they're for Foreign Language Week at our school, and I'm making them for "food day" where everybody brings in something from whatever language they're studying culture…anyways I take French and I'm making cookies, which are really good, so the reason I'm telling you this is because I just have to leave the chapter at a cliff hanger because I can't let my cookies burn…bye!

Yuna:(looking through 'Lucy's Documents') hey! She already has the next two chapters typed up!

Tidus:(with Gippal and Riku inside my closet) why are we here again?

Sora: (stuffing his face with my cookies) these French cookies really are good!

Me: I got another paper cut typing this story up…and Gippal says to remember to review...yes GIPPAL says to review, not me, so that should make you really want to review!

Lucy Samantha