Kairi awoke from her memories with a start at a blood red dawn as Sora shook her shoulders like a nervous wreck, 'what is it Sora?' she moaned rubbing her sleepy eyes,

'Did you mean it?' Sora gasped, still shaking her, 'did you mean what you said?'

'About what?' Kairi asked sitting up in her pink pyjamas,

'Riku has changed Kairi!' Sora gritted his teeth,

'Yuh I know!' Kairi said,

'Did you mean what you said about leaving him?'

'What?'

'Y'know how you said we should take the raft- just the two of us?'

'Yes?'

'Did you mean it?' Sora said and stopped shaking her long enough for her to stop and think, 'It was just a quick thought Sora…' she was cut off. What ever had happened to Sora, Kairi could plainly see he was spooked,

'Get you gear! We're leaving!'

'Sora you're talking crazy! What happened?'

'It's Riku!'

'What did he do?'

'No time for that- I'll tell you later! Let's go!' he started grabbing clothes from her draws and stuffing them into a bag, 'How did you get into my room anyway?' she asked, still thoroughly confused, 'Quimbly let me in!' Sora said. Quimbly was the mayor of Destiny Island he was a little eccentric but he had been the person to take care of Kairi like a daughter and she loved him dearly,

'He let you in? Oh would you stop doing that!' Kairi snapped at Sora as he paced quickly back and forth,

'He doesn't care about us!' Sora said and tugged her out of bed. He rushed her, still in her PJ's out of her room, downstairs and past Quimbly cooking bacon and eggs in the kitchen and outside,

'Breakfast in ten kids!' Quimbly said watching them leave,

'But I'm still in my PJ's Quimbly!' Kairi cried,

'That's nice dear' Quimbly muttered and continued cooking. Sora dragged her down the path of her house towards the beach,

'We have to hurry- Riku will be up soon'

'Just let me get some clothes on!' Kairi muttered in an attempt to humour her obviously delirious friend. Sora chucked her the bag of clothes and she dug through it looking for a sweatshirt. Meanwhile Sora looked around with nervous eyes. When Kairi began to put on some shoes he snapped and picked her up, carrying her over the raft and dumping her on it. Then he pushed it off the dry sand and out into the shallows before hoping on it himself, 'right, now will you tell me what's going on?' Kairi asked a little exasperated. Sora handed her a paddle and instructed her to row, she obliged only to stop when Sora began to stare at Riku walking up over one the dunes towards were the raft was.

He saw that the boat was gone and looked out to sea. His jaw dropped and he realised what was happening- they were leaving without him. He ran down the sand hills and into the water. By now Sora had started paddling again and they were out of the shallows, 'Wait!' Riku spluttered and began to paddle after them. But he was no match for the tide as it constantly pushed him back closer ashore.

Finally he gave up and screamed at the two teens in anguish, 'Sora come back here you prick!' His words were carried away by the wind and became unheard by either Sora or Kairi, 'Don't you take her from me!' Sora kept paddling and Kairi just sat there confused but trusting her best friend's judgement, 'SHE"S MINE! AND I BUILT THE RAFT! THAT'S MINE TOO!' but the Raft just kept drifting and drifting until to Riku it was just a tiny dot in the distance.

About half an hour Kairi gave in, 'Okay Sora lets go back now. You've had your fun'

'Are you mad? We can't turn back now- he'll kill me!'

'What the heck happened between you two?'

'You wouldn't understand!' Sora said,

'Try me'

'Promise you won't laugh?'

'Yes'

'You I li… lik…. You know I'm your good friend don't you?'

'Of course I do'

'So you know I um… wa… want to be more than friends' Sora blushed,

'Sora I don't know if you realise how easy it is to read you, I've known you and Riku both have had a crush on me for ages'

'Oh, okay. Well last night Riku saw us talking and…'

'WHAT!' Kairi shrieked, 'you mean I'm stuck out here in the middle of the ocean just because you and Riku had a tiff over me!'

'Don't you believe me?' Sora asked,

'I believe you; I just think YOU'RE AN IDIOT!'

'Why?'

'It was just a minor argument! That's why!'

'He threatened to kill me- I could see it in his eyes!' Sora said,

'I don't care if he wanted to rule the whole friggin world! I was only joking about us taking the raft last night'

She turned away from Sora and dangled her feet in the tropical water- giving Sora the cold shoulder, 'I'm sorry' he said, 'I was just trying to protect you Kairi'

'Well I can look after myself!' she snapped back, 'now let's hope we can navigate our way home because I'm going swimming if we can't!' she warned,

'Okay' Sora said weakly. When ever he was around her he felt like doing anything she said. Such is the power of love.