A/N: Okay, last chapter (before the hot-n-wild-random-yaoi-blooper-ness) Mizu asked Sora to swear a blood-bond with her. And now we get to see Sora's reaction to this admittedly odd request. Enjoy the sappy-ness!
"You wanna WHAT!" Sora yelped.
"Sora, please," Mizu asked. "It would mean a lot to me." She turned up her wrist and held it so the light showed a dozen tiny scars, pale against her tan skin. "I've already sworn the bond with a lot of people. People that have always been very close and important to me. This one here," she pointed at the second scar, "I swore with Cloud. It's just swearing your friendship to one another, that's all. Please, Sora."
"Just swearing your friendship, huh?" Sora asked. Mizu nodded. "Okay," Sora agreed with a grin. "What do I have to do?"
Mizu sighed, pulled out one of her knives, and said, "Just do what I do," before nicking her wrist with the knife, drawing blood. Then she handed the knife to Sora. It was a mark of how much he trusted her that he did the same. With a small drop of blood appeared on Sora's wrist, they clasped their hands around each other's arms, making sure the cuts covered each other.
Somehow, Sora knew what to do after that.
"Blood to blood, friend to friend, and heart to heart," Mizu and Sora said in perfect unison, "we swear a bond, as friends and sibs, now part of each other till the end of time."
"And after," Sora promised. Mizu's eyes filled with tears, and she smiled at him.
"And after," she agreed. Then she pulled a white cloth out of a pocket and ripped it in half, tying one half of it around the cut on Sora's wrist. Before she could tie the other half around her own, Sora took it from her and tied it for her.
"What're friends for, right?" he asked with that child-like grin he always wore. Mizu hugged him briefly, then backed up a pace.
"Speaking of friends," she said in a slightly choked-up voice, "we should probably go looking for ours. Let's meet every day or so in Traverse Town, okay?"
"Right," Sora agreed. "By the fountain in the Third District."
"That's as good a place as any," Mizu said, turning to walk back to Cloud. "See you there, ototosan."
Sora grinned and waved at her, not even noticing that she had called him "little brother" until he had taken off with Donald and Goofy in the gummi ship.
"What was that all about, Sora?" Donald asked. Sora looked at the strip of cloth bound around his wrist and smiled.
"I have a sister now," was all he said.
A/N: The Freekin' End. SUCK! And that was such a short chapter, too... Next fic: Whisper (or not, it kind of depends on what title and/or song I decide to put in it nn).