Back again! And here to rid you all of that nasty cliff hanger! I re-read and re-edited my story, so it should hopefully be better (I added a lot more at the end of chappie 6).

I'm just gonna write this damn thing before my ideas run off lol

Love ya, and keep reading,

Momo

P.S: For those wondering about earring gauged- The size of your hole gets bigger as you put smaller numbered earring gauges in. I have a 10 gauge on my right ear (that's where I got the idea for Azumi's) and a regular earring is about an 18. So it's a big difference lol. Nose rings/studs are about 20/22, and eyebrows are about 14. I think belly buttons are 12 or something (but I know the others for sure) Any questions on that AIM me at Aquarius8876 (or e-mail at 13:.

Azumi

"How could he possible be your father? I thought your parents were dead…" Kairi asked in astonishment.

"They are. But my father mad a deal with the demon Prince, Beleth. My father sold him his soul and body to Beleth for immortality. My mother was the mage, but my father murdered her. In front of me. When I was about five. Just after we had left…" she paused and looked at Riku.

Riku, did you ever have a dream about a little girl on the beach? Her leaving in a boat and you holding the paopou fruit you two shared?

Riku looked at her astonished, and slowly nodded. Azumi was about to break down and cry right then and there. It all made sense now, why she was so drawn to him and such. The paopu fruit, how could she forget the goddamn paopu fruit!

"Yes? Your father sold his soul to Beleth for dirty work?" Kairi asked, wanting to know more.

"Y-Y-Yeah…right…" she averted her gaze to the couple on the other half of the couch, "Yeah, he sold his soul. You know those heartless? That was Beleth's doing. He made my dad do it. My dad has control over his body and mind somewhat, but it's clouded by hate and darkness…"

AND NOW THAT GODDAMN MONSTER WANTS MY FATHER TO KILL ME AND DESTROY MY NEW HOME!

Azumi was fuming now, tears streaming down her face. Riku, hearing her thoughts since she wasn't bothering to contain them, walked over and sat next to her. Putting his arms around her, he whispered, "Don't get so upset over it. You don't want him to have you, do you?"

She looked at him and shook her head. Turning back o the floor, Riku rest his head on hers.

Masking her thoughts again, she wondered, God! How am I gonna get out of thin one…?

Riku was the one, she knew, that would have to be…be…

Azumi, get a hold of yourself! He has nothing to do with you! He's just a pawn… with amazing eyes you could just get lost in…his gorgeous tan body…oh God, and his silky silver hair!

"Okay, I can't handle this right now. I need to go back to the island and get my kit…" she said, getting up and heading out the door towards the docks.

"Wait, woah woah woah! What kind of kit?" Riku asked, grabbing her arm.

She smiled at him and then looked at the other three behind them, "C'mon! We'll have ourselves a little party!

And with that, she took off down the road. Riku's house was just up the hill from the docks, so the remaining four could see her jumping in a boat and waving to them.

"Well, I'm all for a party, whatever it might be about!" said Sora, talking Kairi's' wrist and dashing down the hill.

Tidus soon followed suit, along with Riku. Tidus took a boat by himself, and Sora and Kairi had already left, so Riku took the remaining one.

Within moments of reaching the docks a Destiny Islands, Azumi was already running down ramps of the tree house with e small box in her hand. Due to her incredible speed, she was in front of the group within minutes (everyone else docked at about the same time, except Azumi).

"Okay, she asked, who's first?" she asked cheerily.

"First for what?" asked Selphie behind them.

"Hey, we had to spend the might here because you two took our boats, ya?" Wakka shouted, pointing accusing finger at Sora and Riku.

"Did you have fun together?" Azumi asked slyly.

Both just blushed and left it at that.

Dirty, dirty Wakka!

"But Selph has a good question: who does go first, and for what?" Sora asked incredulously.

"For a piercing, duh!" Azumi said, as if it was common knowledge.

While the boys just gaped, Kairi and Selphie immediately jumped forward, shouting, "Oh! Do me! Do me!"

The boys' jaws dropped further, if it was possible, "Are you INSANE!" Sora asked.

"'Course not! She said. It's a great stress reliever. Here, I'll go first…what to do…"

"Your lip! Then do mine! And my ear too!" shouted Tidus, leaping forward more eagerly then the girls.

Azumi just laughed and opened her kit. There were several different earrings. Some were straight bars with balls on the end (like one of the ones she had through her ear) and some were curved. She had different objects that you could put through you ear too, gradually making the hole bigger, like her first on her right side (it was called gauging she explained). Some were just regular looking earrings where the thin piece of metal that went through you was different sizes and with different backings. Azumi said there earrings were all for different parts of the body.

Tidus, unable to contain his excitement, shouted, "C'mon! Pierce your lip, or do mine!"

Azumi laughed again and pulled out a small, slightly gun-like tool. Placing a silver stud in one end and a flat backing in the other, she locked the earring parts in position and held it to the center of her bottom lip by looking in a portable mirror. Pressing the trigger on the tool made it click. She slid off the gun thing and smiled, showing everyone he new piercing.

"Okay, didn't that hurt, ya?" asked Wakka, tightening his grip in Selphie.

Azumi shrugged, "I don't know. I've been doing all of my own piercings for years. I don't really feel a ton of pain anymore…and I don't know if I ever did, either."

"Okay, okay! Me next!" Tidus shouted, jumping up and down.

Azumi smiled, and held the box out to him, pointing to a section and saying, "Pick whichever one you want!"

Tidus, after sifting through the earrings, picked out a silver ring.

Azumi frowned, "That might be kinda painful, though. I'll have to pierce it with a stud, then remove it and feed the ring through…"

"That's okay! I want this one!" said Tidus, holding it out to Azumi.

She looked at it for a moment, then shrugged and put a silver stud of a slightly smaller gauge in. Quickly, she popped it through the spot Tidus had indicated (on his right, lower side of his lip), and sanitized the ring. Immediately, she popped out the stud and shoved the ring through, getting a wail from Tidus.

"There, all done! Wanna see?" she asked, giving him a sweet smile.

He nodded and she showed him in her mirror.

"Holy fucking siht! It's awesome! Uh…Ow, it really hurts though," he said, ecstatic with the results.

She nodded.

"Yeah, the pain will go away in about a day. You'll be able to talk better then, too. I'll make you smoothies and stuff until you can put pressure on your lip and move the muscle with out it hurting. For now, take some painkiller and go to bed," she advised. The boy nodded, heading up to Kairi's tree house.

Guess he's spending the night with us…

Kairi hopped in line next. "I want my nose done!"

Azumi nodded, picking out a 18 gauge needle. When Kairi nervously asked what it was for, Azumi explained that for piercing certain body parts, you had to use a needle to make a hole and then put the earring through.

"Similar to what Tidus had done," she explained.

Kairi nodded, "Do your worst."

Azumi laughed and told Kairi to put an ice cube on her nose. Apparently, the nose was one of the most sensitive parts of the body. In the end, Kairi ended up tearing, but made it through the process.

Selphie was next. She wanted her bellybutton done and her ears pierced a second and third time, as well as in the cartilage on the left side. To Selphie's surprise, the bellybutton was relatively painless, although it made Wakka and the others cringe (except Azumi, of course).

Following the bellybutton piercing, Nami told Selphie to go get some tap water, mix it with hard salt, and put the cup over her new piercing. If Selphie did this three to five times a day, there would bean extremely low chance of infection (apparently, an infection could easily occur). Selphie went up to the tree house as well.

Hmm…The sun's setting…It'll be hard for me to see, so we should probably head inside…

Heading up with the remaining people, they met up with the two girls and Tidus.

Sora was next, and he wanted his eyebrow done with his left ear.

When asked if it would hurt, Azumi laughed and said, "No, no, I don't think so. Especially if you numb it."

Sora, knowing Kairi was watching, opted for no ice. And before Sora could even object, he had a curved barbell with red and black striped balls on the ends through his eyebrow.

When he showed Kairi, she said, "Okay, now that's sexy." And gave him a kiss.

Azumi was in the other room.

And thank God for that…Azumi heard Riku think. But she ignored it and pierced his tongue.

"OW! HOE-Y HIT! AT UH-HING HAUT!" he said as she held his tongue between the tongs.

"Yeah, the tongue's the most sensitive body part, you know. Well, besides your balls, ha, ha!" she laughed

She started to put her things away, when Tidus came in, dragging Wakka.

"Go on and gargle some salt water. Like Selphie. The tongue can get infected too. And trust me, that sucks," she said, revealing a tongue piercing that he never knew even existed.

"Hey, Azumi! Wakka's the only on with out a piercing!" the little boy shouted.

Hey, man, I'm not getting anything done, ya? Needle's creep me out!" he said.

"Then we'll do your ear! Azumi, do mine too!" said Tidus, determined to get his friend a hole.

Wakka sighed, giving in. Apparently, the battle had been going on for a while.

Shrugging, Azumi prepared the little guns. In about five minutes Wakka and Tidus had new earrings in their left ears.

Of course, to Tidus this was nothing, but Wakka slummed away to find his girlfriend (whom, when he found, was delighted with the results).

Sighing, Azumi jumped onto Kairi's bed. Riku soon joined her.

"So. Mind telling me about that dream I keep having?"

.:End Chapter 13:.