Yaaay! Its chappie 12! I'm running out of ideas, so the next few chapters may be a little dry. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: why must I say it every single time? Blah blah blah. I don't KH or square of any of the anime characters in this chapter and I am in the process of plotting my attempt to overthrow the president of the square corporation. By the way, would n e one reading this happen to have an anti aircraft missile launching machine that I can borrow? LOL. Just kidding! Jk jk!

Chapter 12: PARTAY!

"Sora, you don't even know how to play Go!" Riku exclaimed. "Why are you entering the tournament?"

"Hey, it also says that there's another tournament going on right now in Hollow Bastion, and next month there's gonna be one held in Halloween town." Kairi said.

"Are you okay Riku? You look kinda funny." Sora asked. Riku was grinning strangely, as if he was plotting something.

"No. I'm okay." He said.

"Sora, on the noticed pinned up on the bulletin board, it said preliminaries were being held in the Gizmo shop."

"I wonder how many people are entering?" Sora wondered.

The noise spoke for itself. When they got to the door leading to the 2nd district, the voices of people and music was so loud you couldn't hear yourself think!

"Oh…"

"let's just worry about making it to the preliminaries before you get all worked up about winning." Riku advised him. "I don't wanna see Sora cry…It's not pretty…So I'm going to go wait in the item shop."

"Okay!"" Sora was too busy staring at something on the ground. ('What?', you ask? I have no idea whatsoever. It's Sora! I mean, come on!)

"I won! Riku, I won!" Sora was jumping around like a three-year-old on a sugar high. Actually, deep down inside, he probably is.

"You didn't win, you just made it past the preliminaries." Kairi was trying to explain it to him. "Hey, where'd Riku go? He said he was waiting in the item shop."

There was a note sitting on the table in the item shop. It read:

Hey. I went somewhere.

None of your business.

Riku

"Well, that was polite!" Kairi growled sarcastically and crumpled up the paper.

"I bet he ran away 'cause he was sad that I entered and he didn't," Sora mocked.

"Well, you'd better get some sleep. The first round of the tournament is tomorrow." Kairi stated.

"'Kay."

Riku didn't come back until late that night. He snuck into the apartment, careful not to wake anyone up, and-

Flu-sssssssssssshhh BOOM CRASH MoOoOoO Ka-BOOM!

Riku winced.

"Snoooorch." Sora was fast asleep and snoring. Quietly, Riku snuck over to his chair and went to sleep.

"WAKEY WAKEY!"

"Aaaaugh!" Riku woke up to see the lovely cough not coughface of Sora with a childish grin, jumping around screaming 'wakey wakey'.

"Will you shut up!" Riku growled.

"Somebody's grumpy."

"Of course I'm grumpy, Kairi. Sora is running around screaming at the crack of 8 AM!"

"I'm not Kairi."

Riku turned around, and sure enough, Sora was hopping in circles around Yuffie and Squall. "What are you guys doing here?"

"We were bored. And Cloud is um…busy." Yuffie explained.

"Ah! That's better!" A voice came from the bathroom, followed by the flushing of a toilet. Cloud walked out of the bathroom folding a newspaper. "Stupid Preparation H cream!"

"What? Why is everybody looking at me?"

"Ew."

"I have to go to the tournament! Kairi! Let's go!" Sora cried.

Kairi was still searching for the paper.

"Kairi, I don't think you want it now." Yuffie said and pointed toward Cloud standing in the bathroom doorway looking bewildered.

"I don't. Come on Sora. Let's get going."

The two walked out of the door toward the second district.

"I have to go, too." Riku said and walked out the door.

"Oh well. I guess it's just us." Cloud said to Leon and Yuffie.

Suddenly, a moogle walked out of the closet.

"Yo-yo-yo. What up, ya'll? Ya here for da PARTAY!" The moogle was wearing a medallion and a bandana was tied around its head.

"I think that moogle thinks it's black," Yuffie whispered to Squall.

A/N: I don't mean to offend any African American people reading this fanfic.

"Yeah. Let's go." Cloud, Yuffie, and Squall left Sora's apartment and headed for the tournament.

When Sora and Kairi got to the Gizmo Shop, where the tournament was being held, Sora immediately ran over to admire the giant Go board on the wall behind the tables.

"What's this for?" He asked Kairi.

"It's so the people in the audience can see each move that the players make." She said. "Someone usually uses a pole to stick the pieces on the giant board, and another person shouts out the coordinates of each move."

"Well then, where's the people who are in charge of it?"

"We're heeeeere!"

Sora turned around to the entrance where a blond guy in a cloak, and with what looked like a metal arm, kicked open the door dramatically. Behind followed a walking suit of armor.

"Excuse me, kid. I need to get to the giant board." Theboy said and looked down at Sora, who was staring at the metal person.

"Don't stare, Sora. It's rude." Kairi whispered to Sora and elbowed him in the side.

"Nah, it's okay. He gets it a lot." The blonde guy said, motioning to the suit of armor.

"I'm Alphonse," The suit of armor said in an echoey voice and held out his hand for Sora to shake. "And this is my big brother Edward."

Sora just looked at the armor's hand, then at Al, then at Ed, then back at Al's hand. Then he burst into a fit of uncontrollable laughter and started rolling around on the floor. "Hahahahaha! It's a little kid's voice in a- Hahaha- huge metal body! HAHAHAHA!"
"Shut up, Sora!" Kairi whacked him on the head and he quickly composed himself. "So, how are you gonna run the giant Go board?"

"Like this!" Ed said. He jumped into the air and clapped his hands together. Then he landed on one knee, and a metal pole came out of the ground.

"Kawl!" Sora jumped up and down. "That's awesome!"

Ed climbed on top of Al's shoulders. "He'll call out the coordinates to me."

"Oooh."

Then, a voice came over the loudspeaker.

"Attention to all competitors. The Traverse Town Go Tournament with begin in 15 minutes. Please report to your designated stations."

"Gotta Go!" Sora laughed at his own pun. "You know! Go as in leave- the Go tournament- you know…oh, never mind!" He said and headed toward the door.

I don't feel like mentioning every opponent that Sora played against, because it would take forever for me to describe 63 Go matches, so I'll just tell you that Sora beat every one of his competitors, including Hikaru Shindo, who then went into a negative slump, because even using his secret weapon (Sai), he still lost.

When Sora finished with his semi-finals match, he looked on the poster with the list of people competing in each match. Strangely, there was no one listed to compete against Sora in the final match.

As soon as he took his seat at the table with the Go board on it, the announcer came on to the loudspeaker.

"The final match is about to begin. Competitors, please enter at this time."

Sora turned around to see his opponent enter. The door swung open, and in walked….

RIKU?