Disclaimer: He's making a list and checking it twice. He's going to find out who's naughty and nice. Yes, I said naughty. I'M LOOKING AT YOU PEOPLE WHO SAY THEY OWN KINGDOM HEARTS. Santa doesn't like thoughs people.

Authors Note: Not much happening to be honest. Enjoy the chapter? Please review?

Yes, I believe in Santa
Chapter Six: Comfort

I remember this one time I was around five years old. See, it was back in the good old days of elementary school. And I decided, for the first time, that'd I go on the monkey bars.

Now this was huge for a five year old, I might add. Going on the monkey bars was so a seven year old thing. As I walked up to the bars I was thinking how much of a bad ass everyone would think I was.

Except without the word bad ass. In fact, I think I was thinking about cookies. Don't five year olds think about cookies?

Well, how should I know? That was over ten years ago.

Any who, when I was walking up to the monkey bars something horrible happened. The elastic on my underwear broke. And since I was wearing my school dress, it slipped off without me even noticing.

So here I am at the monkey bars. And let me tell you. It was rather thrilling. I was hanging in the air getting blisters on my new forming baby hands. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE on the playground was going 'That Kairi! She's one super chick.' And it gave me a lot of confidence.

So much confidence I started to do a few flips. And now people had a new reason for staring. And I kept on doing flips and junk and didn't even notice! I ignored the fresh air brushing past my you know. And I had no idea everyone could see my girly parts.

Until a little boy decided to chant "Boy's go to Venus to get a penis! Girl's go to China to get a vagina!"

That's when I looked down. And I ran off crying. It just so happened to be the most embarrassing moment of my life.

Until now.

Everyone of my elf companions were staring at me. Well, not just me. Sora and I. They were starring at us. Why? Because we just so happened to appear out of no where. And Sora's body on top of mine. I would stare too.

Yes, it was rather awkward.

I looked around the room with a panicked look on my face. And between thoughs looks I glared at Sora with an expression that screamed 'GETOFFOFMEYOUMOTHER-'.

But Sora is a guy. And not as smart to understand the woman language.

"Hey," Tidus rang out from behind whatever toy he was making. It's not like I could see it. Sora's ass was in the way. "If you guys want some privacy you can just teleport out of here."

Sora looked at me. Then he looked at the elves. Amongst the elves were Riku. Then I saw an evil smile spread across his face.

And my pupils lessened in size. The color in my face was gone. Even it's warmth was gone. Because I knew what that look meant. Sora was going to pull another one on me. His yearly (or more) prank.

"No," Sora winked at Tidus as he ran his fingers through my hair. Then his body got closer to mine. "I think we're fine right here. You guys can watch if you want." He winked towards the younger blonde.

Next thing I did I didn't even see coming. You'd expect that I smack him or kick him in the nuts. Things girls, especially me, do to guys when they piss them off. But no. None of that came out of me.

Instead, tears came out. Just like a baby. I started bawling and sobbing right there on top of the teddy bears. "Just leave me alone," I tried to say. But the words wouldn't come out. I don't even know why I was crying. Well, I can see why. But it just wasn't me.

Then it hit me. It was because Riku was involved. I didn't want him to think anything dirty of me.

But no! Sora didn't feel sympathetic. He just raised his evil little eyebrow at me. Darn that stupid eyebrow. "God Kairi," Sora finally climbed off of me. He gave me a look that I didn't recognize. It looked like a mix between disgust and hurt. What did he have to feel hurt over? It was my reputation being ruined! "I was only joking." And with those parting words, he teleported to God who knows where.

He was the lucky one. Sora I mean. He gets to teleport and I get to sit here in shame. STOP TEARS! I COMMAND YOU!

I hadn't even realized at the time that Riku had picked me up and held me in his arms. He even carried me out of the room so all the elves wouldn't have to see me cry. I didn't realize until Riku kissed me on the nose.

"You okay Kai?" he asked in a sympathetic voice. Riku was kneeling before me and stroking his finger against my cheek. That only made me cry more. Poor Riku was the thing going through my mind. Now his finger is going to be covered in my tears. "What's wrong Kai-chan?"

Hmm...let's see. A lot of things. Sora being a jerk. Sora being a jerk while kissing me. Sora being a jerk while saying he only kissed me because I wasn't ugly. Sora saying he'd rather be with Namine. Sora...

Let's face it. Sora was my problem.

"N-nothing," I stuttered. I love Riku and all but I don't want him to know that Sora had done all thoughs things to me. I wasn't that much of an pathetic person.

"Kairi," he lightly chuckled. Now his hand was rested upon my cheek. But no! I couldn't concentrate on this glory that was his hand. I had to cry. Boo emo girl. Boo. "I know when you lie. Tell me what's wrong."

I breathed in to tell him nothing again. But instead the words that poured out was everything that had happened since Sora had come to pick me up. Every little detail. Except for the fact that I left out any detail that included me being in love with him. I'm not completely stupid. And Riku just sat their and listened. With every word I spilled out to him I felt surprisingly better.

"Thanks," I managed to laugh in between sniffs. "I feel better now."

"That's good," Riku smiled at me as he wiped a tear from under my eye. "You look prettier when your smiling Kai-chan."

Oh my did that make my heart doki-doki. I knew my face was probably now matching the color of my hair. "Shut up," I jokingly pouted. Riku laughed and helped me stand up.

"Smile Kai-chan," Riku instructed me. And I did. It was surprisingly easy to smile when I was around him. "That's good. Let's go get you something to eat. I can hear your stomach growling."

"Baka," I mentally slapped myself. Riku raised him eyebrow in concern. "I forgot to eat anything since last night."

"You haven't eaten anything in twenty four hours?" Riku gawked at me. "I'm surprised you haven't passed out yet."

"I hadn't even realized," I told him as we walked towards the dining hall. "I've been so-"

"Busy," Riku finished my sentence. We both looked at each other and cracked up. And we were still laughing like the morons we were when we entered the dining hall. You can only imagine the weird looks the other elves were giving us when we were still laughing when we sat down together. I'm pretty sure I heard someone ask someone if we were high.

High. Yes. I'm a cloud! A fluffy white cloud. With bunnies! And the bunnies are talking to me on this Cloud. Speaking of which...

"Welcome everyone to Winter 2005!" The blonde Santa proclaimed. Everyone let out their energy in a high pitch 'KANPAI!'. I can only wonder how hard it was for Cloud to calm everyone down. There was nearly two hundred elves screaming out their lungs."I hope this year will be our greatest yet." He raised his glass of egg nog (Yes. Us elves love us some egg nog.) in the air and yelled, "KANPAI!" (A/N: "TOAST")

"BANZAI!" We all cheered and answered. And then most elves, including me, chugged down their egg nog and let out another cheer. (A/N: "HURRAY!","TO LONG LIFE","CHEERS".)

"Calm down everyone," Cloud told us. I'm pretty sure he was half drunk. He has never showed us this much energy. But no matter. We all hushed ourselves and listened to our Senpai. "Now then," he cleared his throat. "You know my wife, Aerith." He waved over to the direction of a beautiful smiling brunette in a pink dress. You know her as Ms. Claus.

"WHOA!" cried some older male elf. "SEXY!"

Yep. I'm pretty sure half of the elves were drunk by this point.

"Oh hush now," Aerith giggled as she took the stage. "I hope everyone has had a good year!"

"HAI!" We all cheered. This was followed by another chugging down of the egg nog. (A/N: "YES!")

"They are rather cheery tonight, aren't they?" Aerith asked her husband, who was occupying himself in something a little stronger then egg nog. "Well, I have an announcement for you! Onbin!" (A/N: "Quiet","Peace!") And we all did so. "I've decided this year that we will have new uniforms! The boys will no longer have to wear tights!"

Boys went 'HAI!' and the girls went 'KUSO!' Us girls loved thoughs tights. Yes we did...

"Instead they will wear balloon type pants," Aerith kindly informed us. "Such as our head elf, Riku, is wearing right now. The pants for the boys will come in a lovely shade of green and their shirts will now come in red. Girls uniforms will remain the same-"

This was the same reaction as before when she announced that the boys wouldn't wear tights.

"Except now the tights will be red and the shirts will be green. Everything else will remain the same," Aerith continued to tell us. "The shoes will match your pants color. And now hats are optional to wear."

And now everyone was throwing their hats up and cheering. It was practically snowing hats in the great hall. Do you see why I love my hyperactive elves?

"I'm pretty sure that's the end of my little speech," Aerith giggled on. "Do you have anything to say, Sora?"

That name. That name brought shivers to my mind. But I calmed down (sort of) when Riku put his hand on my leg and mouthed that it was okay. I couldn't help myself from sneaking glances from him out of the corner of my eye. I saw him look in my direction and nod.

"NOT SO FAST!" yelled a voice. Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked around. Suddenly, a black blur ran through the great hall and up where Cloud was. The eyes of every single elf went in the direction of the blur.

Silver hair.

Black cloak.

Black...everything.

"Hello," snickered the man facing Cloud. "Dear Brother."

Cloud calmly sighed and set his focus on the mysterious stranger. "Hello Sephiroth."

Well we know one thing. This must not be Santa.

Authors Note: XD Still taking ideas. Yep...

Kairi: Secretly one of "Santa's elves" who his son, future Santa, gets picked on by Sora a lot.
Sora: Son of Santa Claus, AKA Cloud. Likes to pick on Kairi.
Riku: Head elf and Kairi's love interest. Likes to flirt.
Tidus: Another elf and Kairi's friend.
Selphie: One of Kairi's friends/classmates. Very hyperactive.
Wakka: One of Kairi's classmates at school.
Namine: A fellow elf. Likes to draw.
Cloud: Santa Claus, Father of Sora.
Aerith: Mrs. Claus, Mother of Sora.
Sephiroth: Cloud's brother.
Leon: School stud and member in the band 'SQUFFIE'. Not a major character.
Yuffie: Leon's friend, Selphie's sister, member in his band. Not a major character.