Thanks for the great reviews! They made me write the next chapter a day later, lol.
Kairi's reaction wasn't exactly what Sora had hoped for. He looked down at the heartless who's eyes were spinning from it's torment from Kairi. Sora had thought that she would be clueless and just say how cute 'the strange little creature' was. But Kairi almost giving his new pet brain damage wasn't something that came to mind.
"Uh, Kairi…meet my new pet." Sora smiled as he gathered the shadow up in his arms.
Kairi stopped her panic and looked at her friend. Was he crazy?! Even she knew what those things tried to do to Sora when he was on his adventures. Kairi pointed at the clump of black in Sora's arms. "But those things tried to kill you before….and now you're hugging it?"
Sora was confused, "How did you know they tried to kill me? You just saw these heartless when I was one."
Kairi put her hands on her hips, sometimes Sora could be way too slow, " Forget that my heart was inside you for almost half of your adventure? I could see what you see…"
Riku grinned, " That's disturbing….and creepy at the same time. That must be why you were acting like a wimp most of the time Sora , you had a girl in your head."
In a flash Riku face was in the sand with quite a large bump forming on his head. Kairi stood looking to the side with an innocent look, holding quite a big rock behind her back.
"Anyways, are you guys gonna help me or not?" This was not the time for this, he needed to figure out a plan to get the heartless into his room past his nosey parents.
The heartless jumped down away from Sora and creeped over towards Kairi, still cautious of their last encounter. Kairi stepped back a bit but then sat down on her knees and put out her hand to the heartless. The shadow came a little closer and sniffed her hand. Kairi started petting the top of its head.
"I guess its kinda here Riku and pet him."
Riku didn't trust that little sneak for a second. No way was he gonna touch that thing, it would probably just bite his finger off. But he didn't want to look like a wimp so being the Riku that he was he walked over towards it and sat down on his knees. He put out his hand about to pet it when it glared at him and scratched his hand.
Riku jumped back holding his hand, " I told you! It wants to kill me..look at it!"
"Riku stop being a baby, its just scared of you." Kairi picked up the heartless and hugged it. The shadow turned its head towards Riku and gave him another grin before turning back around and shot Kairi a pair of puppy dog eyes.
'That thing is going down.' Riku was ready to strangle the stupid little thing.
"So what do you think I should do?" Sora's voice brought Riku out of his violent imagination.
Kairi smiled and winked, "Just do it the old fashioned way."
"Huh?"
"I'm not sure this is gonna work." Sora was so nervous, if his parents caught him doing this he was dead for life. His parents didn't like pets, thought they were smelly and ate so much that they could be the next line in vacuum cleaners. Besides this was so uncomfortable, the heartless was squirming under his shirt. Kairi suggested that he just hide the heartless under his shirt on his back, and since that was the only thing they could think off besides stealing Riku's clothes and dressing the heartless up as his friend…decided that they would just stick with Kairi's suggestion. Besides, Sora didn't think that his parents were stupid enough to fall for a extremely short and black version of Riku anyways.
One the three got to Sora's house they opened the door just a crack to see if the coast was clear. Since it was Sora stepped into the house first and motioned his friends to follow him up the stairs to his room.
"Oh honey your home." Sora froze in his tracks. He quickly turned to face his mom and Riku and Kairi stood close to his sides trying to hide the hunchback moving on Sora's back.
"Hi mom, me and my friends will just be up in my room, okay?" The heartless started to squirm under Sora's shirt and he had to bite his lip to stifle a giggle.
"Okay Sora, just don't forget that….." Sora wasn't paying attention to his mom's ramblings, he had other things to worry about…like that the heartless was squirming around so much and tickling him that he couldn't hold it in any more. He just broke out laughing as hard as he could.
Riku and Kairi panicked. They forgot how ticklish Sora was. They started backing up in front of Sora and pushing him up the stairs. " Sorry Mrs. Sora's mom…um…Sora had way too much sugar today..yeah, and um…we'll just make sure he settles down so don't worry about a thing."
The rushed Sora into his room before his mother could say another word. Kairi grabbed the heartless out from under his shirt and Sora stopped laughing.
"Thanks for the save guys, " Sora sat down on his bed as he was wiping the tears from his eyes.
Kairi set the heartless on the bed and sat down on a chair. Riku just stood with his arms crossed by the door glaring at the heartless that was starting to explore the room.
"So now what are you gonna do with it?"
Sora started thinking, "Well, I was hoping you guys could give me some pointers, seeing as I've never had a pet before."
Kairi sighed, "Well…for starters, what does it eat?"
"Human hearts you stupid!" Riku blurted out. They both just looked at him silently for a moment.
"Well, I guess we're gonna have to find something else for it to eat then…unless you are willing to sacrifice yourself Riku." Kairi loved picking on the "manly Riku".
The thing was plotting to kill him and his friends were joking around about it. Riku rolled his eyes at Kairi, "You would be the first one to go." Riku put his hand on the door knob. " You should probably sleep with a knife under your pillow, I think you'll need it when it attacks you in your sleep." With that he left the room.
There was silence for a minute until Kairi piped up, "He's such a wimp."
If you have any suggestions for the story then let me know...I tend to get writer's block quite a bit -.-;
