/ SWEET CHRISTMAS \
/ by Masigla \
/ a two-part Kingdom Hearts Christmas Fic \

!merry Christmas, everyone!

Author's Note
I say it again, Merry Christmas! I hope you guys enjoy this fic! I tried my hardest to include the best pairings (which does NOT include RikuxSora… bleah.) so I hope you like eet

Oh, and I decided for this to be a two-part thing. The first chapter is up now (Christmas Eve), and the second chapter will be up by tomorrow! Yay! DOUBLE-CHRISTMAS YAYNESS PWNAGE! HAHA.


Pairings
SoraxKairi
RikuxLenne (for Zanisha to enjoy, hahahahaha!)
RoxasxNaminé

Disclaimer
Kingdom Hearts © Square-Enix & Disney
Final Fantasy X-2 © Square-Enix & Disney

CHAPTER O N E

December 22nd. Three days before Christmas, two days before its eve, and a day before the Christmas get-together Selphie had planned at her house. It wasn't a wild party with half the school invited, it was a nice little time during Christmas for she and her friends to hang out, talk about stuff they wouldn't dare talk about in the presence of half the school, and other insane things. She invited only her close friends—Kairi, Sora, Riku, Naminé, Roxas, Orette, Heine, Pints, Tidus, Wakka, and Lenne. As she looked at the list of people coming over, she realized—"I'm close to a lot of people."

A few houses away, Sora was frantically pacing back and forth in his room. Roxas—whom everyone in the school liked to call BHK instead (because his real name, in his opinion, sounded lame, and Selphie had dubbed him "the blonde haired kid" when he first came to the school) –was sitting on Sora's office chair, spinning around in it as his friend panicked.

"Hey Sora," Roxas said, spinning around some more in the blue office chair, "remind me why we're here again."

"I have to figure out what to give Kairi!" Sora said to his friend with panic tainting his voice.

"Sora, the party's tomorrow," Roxas sighed, "and you never thought of it until now?"

"What do you expect?" another blonde entered the room. He fashioned green camouflage pants (with matching shoes to boot), a black shirt with an odd design on it in white, and a cropped green vest over the said black shirt. A simple necklace with an "x" pendant dangled over his neck and his left wrist was clad in a brown studded band. His name was Heine, and he was a year older than Sora and Roxas—but a little younger than Riku. His little sister, Naminé, was in Sora and Roxas' grade, but she was one of the younger people in the class. "This is Sora you're talking to. You expect him to do something ahead of time?"

"Well, seeing as this is about Kairi," Roxas spun around once more, "I thought he'd at least make an exception for her."

"Look guys, if you're here to talk, give me some suggestions!" Sora said accompanied by an aggravated sigh.

"Give her…" Roxas started, "jewelries or something. Girls like that stuff, right, Heine?"

"Yeah, sure." Heine folded his arms and shrugged, "I do know Naminé likes them… I don't know about Kairi."

"Naminé likes jewelry?" Roxas asked with a slight tint of pink in his cheeks, "She doesn't wear any, though."

"She likes making them." Heine clarified, "Half the time Selphie models it around, since she thinks it's a waste for Naminé to make such 'pretty and fabulous jewelry' and then she'll never wear them."

"So, there you go." Roxas stood up and pat Sora on the back. "Get her a necklace."

"What kind, though?" Sora scratched the back of his spiked-up head.

"Do we look like Selphie to you?" Heine rolled his eyes, "Ask Naminé, or Orette, or Selphie. They would know."

"But then they'd know I like Kairi!" Sora blurted out absent-mindedly.

"You dumbass," Roxas laughed, "We all know you like her!"

"You make it so damn obvious," Heine added.

"R-really? Does she know then!" Sora exclaimed. Roxas and Heine looked at each other and shrugged.

"No one knows."

"Oh."

"Well, I better shove off," Roxas declared, "I have to pick up my skateboard from the shop."

"Oh yeah, they're done fixing it…" Heine nodded as he remembered. Roxas waved goodbye and showed himself out of the house. He looked at Sora and held out his hand, "My CD."

"Oh," Sora snapped out of his whatshouldIgiveKairi? trance and walked over to his desk, where a CD case was sitting. Sora took it in his hands and gave it to Heine. "there. Thanks for lending it to me."

"You're welcome." Heine gave Sora a thumb up. "Good music, no? Well I'm going now. Good luck with finding her a gift."

"Yeah." Sora said, saying goodbye to Heine, who lived just next door. He sighed, feeling like he had not made much progress in terms of finding Kairi a gift. He plopped down on his bed and rolled to his side, examining the items placed in a messy order on his beside table. There was a lamp, a radio alarm clock, a bunch of other random things, but most importantly, in a black, sleek frame was a photo. It was no ordinary photo—it dated all the way back to Sora's childhood… if he had remembered correctly, he was around 8 when that photo was taken. A whole six years, Sora thought, as he studied the photo carefully. It was one of him, Riku, Selphie, Tidus, and… Kairi. Naminé and Heine moved in two years after, and Roxas came a year after them. Orette, Pints, and Lenne were always there, but they never became close until middle school.

Closing his blue eyes, he drifted off to a brief sleep. As if right on queue, a flashback had hit him.

"Hey Kairi,"

"What is it, Sora?"

"What are you making?"

"Oh, this? It's a Thalassa necklace, silly! I'm making it for my mommy because she's going away on a trip. It's supposed to give them good luck!"

"Oh… Can I help?"

Waking up in a jolt, Sora knew right away what he wanted to give Kairi—a Thalassa necklace. Of course, he lacked the skill, the patience, nor (most importantly) the time, but he could buy one, right? He wondered if she would get made that he didn't make it himself, but he had something else in mind to go along with the necklace. Getting off his bed, he straightened his outfit out and grabbed his wallet.

"Where are you going?" his mom inquired as he hurriedly came down the staircase.

"I have to go buy a gift... for… eh, it doesn't matter."

"I thought your friends had a rule that you just gave each other cards so no one feels left out?"

"Exactly mom… I need to go buy err, cards." Sora waved goodbye to his mom and shut the door behind him.

Finding the necklace was easy enough. He knew the exact place to go. He went to the souvenir shop in town, where tourists often came. Thalassa necklaces were famous as memoirs to tourists who visited Destiny Islands—Sora's mind lingered on the thought of whether or not Kairi would get made for getting one.

But then again, it was special enough that she got something besides a card. Sora had decided he would give her the necklace in private so the others wouldn't find out. Mostly, it was just him being scared of Selphie exploding in his face along with a total spaz about "the rules" and "the rules bound by destiny".

After purchasing the necklace, he went off to a stationery store, where he bought cards for everyone. Another rule was that you had to put a message specifically to that person in each card, that way it's a little bit more than just a card. It was easy way back when there were only a few of them, but their circle of friends had suddenly exploded sometime during their time in middle school—but the more, the merrier, right?

"Hey, Sora, man!" an accented voice greeted him. "Last-minute gift shopping, eh?"

"W-wakka?" Sora turned around to see Wakka behind him as he walked back home. "Y-yeah." He shoved one hand in his pocket, holding on tightly to the necklace to make sure it didn't fall out.

"Hey Sora!" Tidus greeted after catching up with Wakka. "Up for a round?"

"Not right now guys, sorry." Sora bowed down briefly and took off.

"Haha, he's in such a rush." Tidus laughed, soon to be accompanied by the orange-haired Wakka standing next to him.

"This year's party sure is gonna be interestin', ya?"

"RIKU!" Sora practically shouted into the phone as soon as his platinum-haired friend picked up the phone.

"Jesus Christ, Sora!" Riku exclaimed on the other end.

"Sorry." the brown-haired boy calmed down, "I got Kairi a gift… like, something other than a card."

"I'm not surprised." Riku said. Even though they were talking on the phone, something inside Sora told him Riku was smirking. "What did you get her?"

"A necklace," Sora answered nervously, "do you think she'll like it?"

"Yeah, sure. Sora, I have to go." Riku said.

"Huh? You busy?"

"Not exactly… erm, Lenne's on the other line, actually."

"Oh," Sora laughed sheepishly, "Lenne."

"It's not really funny, Sora."

"Sorry. What happened?"

"Shuyin broke up with her… poor girl's a wreck right now."

"Oh… I'll hang up, then. Talk to you later,"

"Bye."

Sora sighed. As soon as he put down the phone, it rang. "Hello?"

"Sora—it's Kairi."

Sora's heart soared for a moment, then it stopped and started off once again, except on a faster beat, "K-kairi! Haha, what's up?"

"Have you heard about Lenne?" she asked.

"Yeah, just did."

"Shuyin was cheating on her…" Kairi's voice was full of sadness—and Sora wanted to take it away, "and now she's miserable… I'm afraid she won't come to the party tomorrow and become… suicidal. You know how kids our age can get…"

"I do," Sora said agreeingly. "I'm sure Riku's doing a good job cheering her up."

"I think he loves her." Kairi said, managing to stifle a giggle.

"Haha, I think so too."

A moment of silence. It was painfully awkward. It suddenly occurred to the both of them that for the first time in their lives, they couldn't find any topic to talk about. Yes, it was painfully awkward to the eleventh power.

"So…" Sora started, shifting comfortably on the sofa he was sitting on, "…excited for the err… party?"

"Yeah, I guess." Kairi sighed, "But all of this with Lenne and Naminé and—"

"Wait, Naminé? What happened to Naminé?"

"No one told you yet? Or are you just blind?" Kairi joked, "She likes BHK."

"Oh, figures." Sora shrugged. "When did it ever become like this?"

"What, Sora?" Kairi asked, surprised by the sudden seriousness in his usually cheerful and optimistic voice.

"I mean, I can remember perfectly the times when we all just hanged out," Sora started, "Now it's different… now there are all these emotions mixed and it just makes everything so awkward!"

"I guess it's part of life." Kairi shrugged. "Listen, Sora, I have to go. I'll talk to you later or I'll see you."

"Yeah, sure, bye." Sora pressed the TALK button on the cordless and set it on the nearby coffee table.

It was shaping up to be one interesting Christmas.