OMG! I kno, its been 4ever and a half, but my computer blew up! And it totally sucked, cuz not only could I not update, but I couldn't write chapters in advance. : ( I apologize ……im sry im sry im sry etc.

Well…..HERES CHAPTER 8!

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It was a stormy morning when Donald, Leon, Goofy, and Cid were sitting around the small, round table in Cid's shop, drinking coffee and recovering from last nights drinking. Well, one of them, anyways.

"That stupid blonde…." Leon had just swallowed half of the coffee in his mug before practically dropping it back on the table top.

"What happened, anyways….?" Donald, lacking the opposable thumb, passed on the coffee.

Leon sighed. "I was about to go kick his ass, when, naturally, Yuffie of all people goes running by yelling 'I'm going to kill you'. (Goofy's ears drooped a little at this statement) And me, being the idiot I am, asked her what she was doing, and she says 'HEY, I could use that!', and takes my sword!"

"Why didn't you stop her? You know Leon, sometimes a man just has to take charge." Cid snicked.

Leon glowered. "I TRIED. I chased after her, and she shot me in the face, telling me I was 'distracting' her. I ended up having to contact Cloud and tell him that I couldn't duel because I was weaponless. He laughed."

Leon, clearly agitated, was about to get up and possibly leave, when the front door burst open, revealing two smirking teenagers. And as the door opened, the rain, with the help of the wind, got everybody in the room wet.

Sora stepped inside, arm still wrapped around Kairi's waist, and shook his head (somewhat like a dog) to get the several gallons of water out of it.

He glanced around the room to see everyone looking rather waterlogged. He smiled sheepishly.

"Surprise….?"

"You are an idiot!" Donald was pacing, back and forth along side the wall, yelling at Sora as he and Kairi were drying off, both in a new change of clothes. (Kairi's fit, this time) Both Leon and Cid were upstairs doing the same. "It was storming out, and so you think, 'Oh! I know! Let's get out of the rain by going to a sewer!' I swear, use some brains once in awhile! You should know better, being the keyblade master and all…."

Sora, watching as Donald was pacing back and forth, amused himself for a moment, picturing him as one of those games where you shoot the ducks for points. He figured Donald would be worth about ten.

"You're overreacting" He finally said. "We're both fine now, so just get over it. Why do YOU care, anyways?"

Donald ceased his pacing. "Because, YOU'RE the keyblade master! Did you somehow forget that?"

"Oh RIGHT," Sora snorted, "It couldn't be 'cause you actually CARED about my well being, hm?"

Donald just stood still for a moment, trying to think of a response. He didn't quite catch that Sora was being sarcastic.

Sora laughed. "Stupid duck."

Donald's feathers seemed to stick up for a moment, but he quickly regained his composure. "Okay," He said, taking a deep breath, "Let's move on. First off, how long are we going to stay here?"

"I dunno." Sora stretched his arms before placing them back on Kairi's shoulders. "How long do you want us to stay here?"

"Oh, I was thinking a few more days…."

"I was talking to Kairi, not you."

"Well SOOOOORRY." Donald, with difficulty, climbed up onto a chair.

Kairi twisted her hair around one of her fingers. "I don't care." She said a little shyly. She still wasn't used to Donald yelling on a regular basis.

'Well," Goofy chimed in, "could we possibly leave soon? I'm sure Yuffie is still a little angry with me…."

"And I have no idea why…." Sora stood up, and grabbed Kairi's hand, before announcing "I think I'm going to go show Kairi our new ship. We'll be back later."

"Don't bother." Donald looked at the pathetic, whimpering dog, and made up his mind. "We'll probably leave later today…. We'll go ahead and tell Leon and the rest that we're leaving, and then we'll meet up with you at the ship later."

Sora muttered a 'see ya' before he and Kairi left.

"Wow…." Kairi almost whispered as she and Sora came up to the gummi ship. "It seems so much bigger than the one I remember…"

"That's because it is." Sora laughed, as he opened up the door so he and Kairi could get in. "The last one we had didn't even have a bathroom."

"Ouch."

'Tell me about it. With Goofy, we had to make about twenty emergency landings daily."

Kairi laughed, as she and Sora stepped into the ship through the rounded doorway, which led into the control room. There were panels filled with buttons and levers, screens and intercoms, most of which looked very expensive. "Wow," she said, "Cid has done an impressive job."

"Yeah, but it cost a ton…" Sora had been playing with one of the biggest levers while Kairi looked around the room. He somehow managed to snap it off (he muttered an 'oh shit' and gave a horrified expression), but, luckily for him, Kairi wasn't looking, so he quickly looked for somewhere to hide it. He settled for the toilet in the small bathroom, which someone had left the door conveniently open.

He went running over to Kairi, though, when he heard her say 'THIS is where you sleep?'

"Yeah," He said as he came in, a little bit of a worried tone in his voice still, but he quickly shed it. "What's wrong with it?"

"It's just…" Kairi searched for the right words. "It's…. I guess."

"Eh. Just say it, it's little."

This was probably an understatement, seeing as the room had barely enough room for the three beds in it, and someone with Sora's height practically smacked their head on the roof when they walked in.

"Well, no, I've seen smaller rooms, I guess. Of course, they weren't for three peop- I mean, living…..things."

"Well hey. We get by. We only come in here to sleep anyways. Besides, Donald loves this room." Sora laughed as he sat down on one of the small beds.

Kairi sat down next to him. "Maybe," she said, "The problem isn't that it's so small, it's just very…. Boring. There's nothing on the walls or anything except…lots of white."

"We're not much for interior decoration…." He yawned as he suddenly remembered his 'plan'. "Want to see our main room?"

Kairi, watching her head, got up. "Sure."

The 'main room', or living room, or whatever you wish to call it, was the biggest room in the ship. While the control room and the bedroom and the bathroom were all connected on one floor (the bathroom + the bedroom the size of the control room), the living room took up the entire second floor, which was an impressive size compared to the rest.

"Now this is more like it!" Kairi yelled, as she looked around the large room, which had an impressive fake fireplace, a book shelf filled with a variety of books, a refrigerator, a small table, several paintings on the wall, and, best of all, a huge television in the corner with a small leather couch in front of it. (next to which, of course, was a shelf with about 50 dvds- getting cable in space must have been difficult)

There was also a huge window on one of the walls which must have had a beautiful view when in space. But Kairi could only imagine.

"Welcome to the room where we spend most of our lives." Sora said in a joking voice, though he was actually very serious. "All we need now is a bar!"

"A loaded bar." Kairi added.

"Of course."

Sora went to one of the drawers and pulled out something while Kairi was looking at the DVD collection.

"Nice, huh?" He said smoothly, while holding something behind his back and sitting on the couch.

"Very." She said back, soon joining him on the couch. "I bet that you have a great view from that window."

"Yeah," Sora said in a low voice. "I'll have to show you sometime. It's very…." His low voice turned to a purr, and he said it right in her ear as he leaned over her. "…romantic."

She giggled as he started to kiss her on the cheek repetitively, before he pulled her into an actual kiss on the lips, the whole time, leaning over her a little more, until he was completely on top of her on the couch.

She ran her hands through his messy hair as they kissed endlessly, barley taking time to breathe. Sora ended up putting one leg on each side of her, surprised that there was enough room on the couch.

In the war for dominance, Sora was surprised to see that Kairi was actually letting him win, as she let out a low, but very satisfying, moan, and she tugged harder on his hair to deepen the kiss. Heh, girls. Sora always won 'em over.

He finally broke away from the kiss, leaving them both panting for breath. Sora started to leave a trail of little kisses down her neck towards her breasts, but did it so slowly that it was torture to Kairi. He smiled when she almost whimpered.

But while his lips were busy with one thing, his hands were busy with another.

His hands were massaging her legs softly, which she didn't seem to mind at all, while they very sneakily got higher and higher up her thigh, until they were starting to lift up her (well, technically Yuffie's) skirt.

He put each hand on one leg, until he reached her underwear, which he very gently started to take off.

That's when Kairi stopped kissing him and pushed him on the chest lightly to get him to sit up.

"What's wrong…?" Disappointment was all over Sora's face.

Her face was still inches from him, and her voice came out in a heavy whisper. "I… don't think…"

But Sora cut her off, by saying "Just chill….." And he kissed her again, attempting to lean her back on the couch. But she made a noise right in his mouth, it was somewhat like a whine, to get him to stop kissing and sit up again.

Before he could ask, she said, in the same whisper, "It's not that I don't want to be with you Sora… But the image of Donald walking in on that would horrify me forever."

Sora laughed and agreed, Donald would bring it up every day for the rest of his life.

"Alright…." He said as he quickly grabbed the item he had set on the ground a moment ago. "I have something for you, anyways."

Kairi ran her hands through her hair a few times before responding. "You got me something? You didn't need to do that…"

"Don't get too excited. You have to share it with me."

Kairi gave a confused look before Sora took the Paupou fruit out from behind his back.

Her eyes gazed at the fruit for a few moments before looking up to Sora, then back to the fruit, then back to Sora.

"How did you…..?" She finally whispered.

But Sora cut her off before she could finish. "We…. we went to the island before it was destroyed. We came too late though…. But I took this with us….."

There was a moment of silence, as both of them were lost in their memories. "But," Sora interrupted, "you know the story of the paupou as well as I do." They exchanged smiles.

"Well…." Kairi stretched, the way someone does before they get ready to tell a long story. This, however, is a very short story, so the stretch was pointless. "When two people share it, their destinies become intertwined forever."

"Exactly." Sora broke the Paupou fruit in half, and handed one to Kairi. "This way, we can always be together, even after I leave."

Kairi, who was just about to seal the romantic moment by taking a bite, was taken aback. "What?" She said as her expression changed. "You're leaving me?"

Sora looked confused. "Well, yeah. You knew that you were going to stay here at Traverse Town, right?"

"No, no, no, I don't think so." Kairi stood up and dropped the paupou. "You left me here last time, Sora. You can't just abandon me again!"

Sora stood up now too, the whole time his heart sinking, as his plan was falling apart before him. "You can't come with." He said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. "You'd get hurt."

Kairi looked offended. "I'd get hurt? That's what you're worried about? Sora, don't you get it? I trained for YEARS just so that I could help! So that I wouldn't be in your way! I've PROVED that I can fight already, and I'm willing to prove it again if you want. I'd be more hurt if you just left me on this damn planet!"

Her eyes shone wet with tears, but she refused to cry. Kairi didn't want to look weak.

"Kairi…" Sora started as he tried to hold her hand, but she took a step back. "I… I can't take you with us. I already broke one promise. I'd hate myself forever if you were hurt. I'd go crazy. I…. I can't. I love you too much."

For a moment, Kairi was touched, but then she snapped back to reality. "If you love me," She said with more attitude than needed, "Then you'll take me with you."

Sora paused for a moment in deep thought, before finally saying, in a calm voice, "…..No."

Her eyes widened in a mix of shock and anger, before Kairi dashed out of the ship.

"Wait, Kairi-!"

But before he could chase after her, Donald and Goofy stepped into the ship, as they barley dodged her as she went running by. "Whadja do…?" Goofy asked after the door closed behind her.

"Ugh, move it, will ya? I need to catch up to her!"

Sora looked out the door into the third district, and, look as he might, she was already gone.

Mmmyep. Theres chap 8. well… review! And im sry again that I died for awhile!

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