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A/N: I... honestly thought I had deleted this years ago. I'm honestly torn between editing it and deleting it so no one can ever know my shame. This was written in high school, some time before KH II came out. Back before the story became more convoluted than anything I could come up with.

"RIKU! PIRATES KIDNAPPED SORA!" Kairi's voice echoes through the morning air, startling the sleeping silver haired boy out of the tree. He lands on the ground with a loud thump and glares sleepily at the red head as she makes her way towards him.

"Quit being silly Kairi, everyone knows Pirates don't exist," Riku yawns, standing up and stretching, rubbing his sore spots. Kairi sighs and rolls her eyes, pointing to something behind Riku.

"Tell that to Selphie," she says simply, Riku turns around and blinks. He rubs his eyes to make sure he wasn't seeing things and then turns to Kairi. Selphie sits at the helm of a familiar looking ship that has been hastily painted pink.

"Isn't that Tidus's house boat?" He asks, pointing at the 'pirate ship' complete with a pink Jolly Roger flying from it's masts. If it was Riku was willing to bet Auron was ready to kill, if he already hadn't that is.

"Yep..." Riku scans the deck quickly looking for Auron which is surprisingly hard since the man's coat seems to have disappeared. He finds him tied to the mast with several bright and expensive looking scarves. The poor man's eye is twitching like crazy, Riku chuckles as he spots Sora tied up beside him. The brunette was probably chattering the old man's ear off.

"And Auron actually agreed to this?" Riku couldn't see that happening, especially since Auron was tied up and gagged

"Nope, but he didn't have much of a choice," Kairi giggles, watching the man with interest as he somehow managed to shut Sora up just by looking at him.

Riku rolls his eyes and turns his attention back to the pirate ship spotting Quistis and Lulu wandering around the deck guarding Sora and Auron. Rikku and Yuffie stood nearby messing around with something they probably shouldn't have been, something that Auron was going to kill them for later.

"Quistis and Lulu went along with it?" Riku watches with interest as Zidane walks up to Lulu and starts chatting, Lulu gives the Genome a look that would've made Auron freeze. Somehow going along with Selphie's insane schemes didn't fit either of them.

"Blackmail," Kairi sighs, Riku raises an eyebrow but doesn't ask, it's clearly none of his business. His only mission at the moment was to get Sora away from Selphie before his best friend was corrupted. He glances at Sora, then blinks noticing something he hadn't noticed before though how he didn't notice was kind of odd.

"And Sora's in a dress," Riku says more to himself than to Kairi, already making plans as to how he's going rescue the 'damsel' in distress.

But first he needs a ship and then he needs a crew, he already had several people in mind who he was quite sure weren't on the other ship. Sora's elder brother would help, as would most of his friends, his own elder brother could be blackmailed into participating and several people would help just to get back at Selphie.

"Ye...WAIT! Sora's in a dress? We've got to save him!" Kairi squeals in excitement having just now realized what Riku just said, Riku raises a silvery eyebrow and nods, watching Kairi bounce around like Selphie, which was rather disturbing now that he though about. "Just as soon as I get my camera!"

Riku sweatdrops watching Kairi run towards the dock, he sighs and shakes his head. He'll never understand hyperactive maniacs and their obsession with blackmail.

Thanks to all who have read and reviewed this over the years, I really do appreciate it.