A/N: If any of you mentions the little conversation we had last chapter, I will friggin' strangle you!

Trunks: We know, Twerp. No more insights to your lack of a love life.

Me: That's it! ((starts to pounce Trunks, but gets held back by Teek))

Teek: ((grabs my shirt collar)) Knock it off, Twerp.

Trunks: ((snickering))

Teek: You too, aniki. We torment her enough as it is.

Trunks: Alright, alright.

Teek: Seriously, jikei. Leave her alone. Or at least don't tease her about that anymore.

Trunks: Alright, Teek, I'll let up! Honestly, you sound like we've never poked fun at the kid before.

Teek: May I remind you that it was never such a sore subject before?

Trunks: ((confused look)) ?

Teek: ((sighs)) Tell ya later, oniichan.

Trunks: ((shrugs))

Mizu: Can we just get on with the fic, please? It's my turn to narrate, which is kind of hard to do with you two bickering at each other.

Me: Go ahead, Mizu. If these two start up again I'll break out the duct tape. And Teek, let go of my shirt, wouldja?

Teek: ((lets go))

Mizu: Finally.

----Mizu----

I waited somewhat apprehensively for someone to show up with Riku. Trunks had left earlier that morning, and Teek, Bobbi and I were waiting by a highly-ornamented bridge which led into the clearing that I had awakened in my first day here. This bridge was how Bobbi managed to travel between her dimension and this one.

"I can't tell if it's annoying or what," Bobbi said unexpectedly, "but…"

"What, Twerp?" Teek asked absently.

"I have Simple and Clean stuck in my head."

At my confused look, because I had never heard of whatever she was talking about, Bobbi began softly singing a song.

When you walk away
You don't hear me say, please
Oh baby, don't go

Unexpectedly, Teek joined in, singing in perfect harmony with Bobbi

Simple and clean is the way that you're making me feel tonight

Next thing I knew, I started singing it since it turned out I did somehow know the song.

It's hard to let it go
Hold me
Whatever lies beyond this morning
Is a little later on

The next two lines, I sang alone, not even noticing that the other two had stopped.

Regardless of warnings the future doesn't scare me at all
Nothing's like before

"Hey, you stopped!" I protested. Teek and Bobbi just grinned, and pointed towards the bridge. I looked to where they were pointing, gasped, then ran straight at him.

"Riku!" I shouted, embracing him for all I was worth. He returned it, much to my shock and pleasure.

"I'm glad to see you too, Mizu," he said, half-laughing, "but I can't breathe!"

Bobbi immediately burst out laughing, doubling over and clutching her stomach, and somehow managing to gasp out "Everyone does that!" before she collapsed in gales of laughter.

"Uhm…" Was Riku's only response, while Teek, Trunks, and I rolled our eyes.

"Oi vei," Teek muttered. "I can't believe her…"

"Mizu, who…?" Riku asked.

"Riku," I said, gently pulling out of his arms, and taking a full two steps towards Teek, "allow me to introduce my… uh…"

Teek chuckled lightly. "Fellow yamis," she supplied. Then she held out her hand for a handshake. "Hello, Riku. I'm Teek. Mizu's told us a lot about you."

"You take over from here, Teek," Bobbi said from the ground, "I can't breathe!" Then she immediately started laughing again, and Teek, Trunks, and I rolled our eyes. Again.

"Oi vei," Teek said, again. (A/N: Okay, enough with the again-ness!) "Anyway, the Twerp rolling around like a maniac over there is Bobbi. We ignore her most of the time. You've already met my brother, Trunks. Uhm… Hey, Phoe, get over here!"

Phoe immediately came winging in, deciding it would be faster to fly. "Yo?"

"Where're Saya and 'Lazul? I think we should introduce the entire search party at the same time, you know?"

"Right here, Teek," came Elazul's deep voice from the shadows behind us, causing all of us to jump. "And Sayara's with me."

"Cool," Teek said, then turned back to Riku. "Riku, these three helped big time in finding you and bringing you here. The red-head is Phoe, she's one of the flyers, obviously." Phoe ducked her head in the closest you would ever see her get to a bow. "Sayara is the other girl, and Elazul, well… I think you can tell the two apart. They scouted the ground. Trunks and I also looked from the air. Everyone else in this hell-ho—er… forest… will likely introduce themselves as they see fit."

"How did you find me?" Riku asked. "I don't see how it was possible…"

"We can bypass the laws of time in your dimension. It's… kind of hard to explain."

"Let me try it, Teek," I suggested. "Riku, you might want to sit down. This could take a while…"

So, the search party went off to do… whatever in the world else they do, and Bobbi finally stopped laughing and left Riku and I alone as I explained to him what all Teek, Bobbi, Jhule, and the others have told me about this dimension, trying to make it a lot less confusing than what I was told about it. Riku sighed and ran his hands through his hair when I was done, looking a lot less confused than I thought he would be, and also looking a little… depressed.

"I'm gonna have to get used to this, aren't I?" he asked.

"'Fraid so," I replied as cheerfully as I could, which didn't help his mood any.

A/N: Well, there you go! It's officially a songfic now! But that's not the song that gives the fic it's title, obviously. That song won't come till the last chapter. Actually, I wasn't gonna put Simple and Clean in the fic at all, but it was just too tempting to add in one of my "Random RP Moments," in which Teek, Mizu, and I did sing the song and Riku did show up, but I altered the RP Moment a little…

Mizu: Do the readers really need a history of the chapter when we're through with it, Twerp?

Me: Not really, I just like to talk that much!

Mizu: I thought so…

Bloopers

Scene: Riku arrives

Mizu: RIKU! ((glomps))
Bobbi: And the fearsome cry of "glomp" shalt echoe throughout the campus!
Riku: Not helping!
Director: Cut...