Kiss Paralysis

It's at its hottest when the sun is up high.

Chapter 7, Heat Waves

"Oww, that stings," Sora muttered as he winced at the pain that came from the ointment Kairi was applying to his wound, "It burns."

She blew on the owwie, "Better?" she asked as she began to wrap more bandage around it, "You shouldn't have gone running out in the rain, you know," she said giggling at the silliness of how Sora's injury came to be.

"The pavement was slippery," he countered as he touched his bandage lightly.

Kairi sighed, "I'm sorry about your wound and Selphie just called, I'm going to go with her to the shopping district," she said kissing Sora's forehead, "I'll be back in a few hours, we gotta get some of this wedding dress shopping done."

Sora's mouth dropped slightly, "But weren't we supposed to spend time together?"

"Wedding plans first Sora, then we can spend as much time together as we want," she replied a whimsical look fluttering through her violet eyes, "Like go on a nice honey moon," she said dreamily, "Well, I'm off," Kairi then gave another quick kiss to Sora's cheek and slipped on her light brown sandals.

He remained immobile at the couch, watching as she waved good-bye and closed the door behind her, "Bye Kairi . . ." he looked over to the remote and glared at it, he'd be watching TV all day thanks to his head injury.

Sora muttered something under his breath as he reached out for the clicker, indecisive about what channel to leave it on, but even more indecisive about the marriage.

"Kairi--I'm over here!" Selphie was flamboyantly flailing her arms from afar.

Her red headed friend zoomed through the maze of people, "I'm coming!" she answered as she ran into a stranger, quickly saying a quiet apology.

"People are so rude here," Selphie said with a humph, "Anyways! Where do we start?"

"Let's get something to eat, I haven't eaten anything this morning," Kairi replied as she began shuffling down to the restaurants in the shopping district.

Selphie frowned, "I ate already, I ate a big breakfast with Riku . . ." she said with the same dreamy tone Kairi uses every time she talks about her wedding.

Kairi smiled, "Why do you sound so happy about it?"

A red blush began to spread and stick to Selphie's cheeks like sticky jam, "I, um, it was a really good breakfast!"

"What happened Selphie?" Kairi asked smiling as she waited expectantly for a response.

"He asked me out on a date!" she exclaimed unable to contain her happiness, "At first I thought he was kidding cause y'know Riku isn't the type to just go right out and ask but then he acted totally serious and sweet, it was . . ." she paused trying to find another word besides 'romantic' but unfortunately none came to mind, "romantic."

Kairi couldn't help but hug Selphie and squeal happily like girls tended to do when something great just happened, "When are you guys going on the date? We could make it a double date since I was supposed to spend time with Sora tonight!"

"Tonight at six, we were going to go on one of those boat rides," she replied, "You know the one where you eat dinner by the shore then leave for the boat ride to tour the islands?"

"Really? We've never done that before, this should be perfect for double date!"

Selphie giggled, "Let's hurry up and get your dress ordered so we can go shopping for our outfits for tonight!"

Kairi nodded and both of the girls traversed back to through the stream of people, hastily going towards the wedding dress shops.

"So why isn't Sora helping you wit' this?" Wakka asked as he helped clean off some of the planks of wood that were washed onto Riku's backyard.

He bent down to pick a piece of wood up and toss it upon the miniature mountain of sticks, twigs, and bottles, "He's at home resting, he hit his head on a ladder," Riku replied.

"A ladder?" Tidus asked with a laugh.

Wakka gave Tidus a blank look, "Ya and who was the one who fell over his own feet?"

The laughter from Tidus ceased.

Riku smirked and scooped up the last of the splinter of wood, "The injury wasn't too bad he should be alright in a week."

"I figure Sora would be here anyways to get a break from all those chick flicks," the youngest of the men stated as he plopped down into the grass, grabbing a towel to wipe the perspiration from his forehead.

"Ya man," Wakka agreed, "What's wit' him lately? Sora just seems out of it."

"The wedding is probably giving him stress, I can't believe Sora is getting married so soon," Tidus replied, "I mean c'mon, it's Sora."

"Yeah," Riku agreed as he took a cigarette from his back pocket, lighting it casually.

"It feels like he's under a spell, y'know?" Wakka said staring at the cigarette Riku was smoking.

Riku glanced to the sundial in his backyard, "I've got somewhere to be soon, thanks for the help."

"What? Where are you going?" Tidus asked, "We were just about to ask you if you wanted to play a game of Blitz."

"I've got a date," answered Riku as he put out his cigarette, dropping it on the ground, and burying it beneath the sand.

"A date?" Wakka asked doubting Riku's reply, "Wit' who?"

"Selphie."

Tidus dropped the Blitz ball he was kicking about, "You're going on a date with Selphie?" he asked skeptically.

"Yeah," he answered as if it wasn't some sort of big deal when it actually was a pretty big deal, considering it was Riku going on a date, "Let's have a game of Blitz Ball tomorrow at our island."

Wakka was a little distracted with the jealous face Tidus was making snickering before he replied, "Ya man, that's cool."

"Whatever," Tidus said as he picked up his Blitz ball, "See ya," he said a bit coldly but with an immature face that Tidus had it didn't seem too intimidating.

"Later," Riku answered as he began walking back to the sliding glass doors.

Soon a bouncy Kairi came popping in with various shopping bags, of various colors, and of various sizes, "Sora, I'm home!" she declared as she bent down to place a kiss on his lips.

He had dozed off a bit and stared at her with half opened eyes, "Hey," Sora said with a sleepy grin, "What'd you get me?" he asked jokingly as he began to sit up.

"We're going on a double date tonight--so get ready, take a shower, hurry up," she said as she tried to help him to his feet, "Oh by the way I got you a new suit, try it on to see if it fits!" she shoved the bag to him and he groaned in as he walked towards the bathroom.

"OK, I'm going," Sora said as he tried to removed the sleepy from his eyes, "Who's the double date with?" he asked as he watched the water run down from the faucet.

"Riku and Selphie," she replied as she began cutting off the tags from her night gown, "We're going on the boat ride date that they have around here."

Sora who was just in the midst of brushing his teeth managed to swallow a bit of toothpaste, "Riku and Selphie? Are you sure it's not Tidus and Selphie?" he asked, Riku said he wouldn't date Selphie.

"Yep, I'm sure, is it OK for us to go?" she asked hoping Sora wouldn't mind her rash decision.

He didn't want to let her down, she was so set on doing this, "No, not a problem," even with what happened earlier that morning, he loved Kairi, and he'd do anything for her.

"Are you taking a shower yet?" Kairi asked in an impatiently giddy voice.

"Yeah!" Sora answered as he began undressing, thinking of the inevitable.

Riku opened the gate that led to Selphie's home, the front yard consisted of tropical plants, four banana trees, and one very small paupu tree. He rang the doorbell, a bouquet of roses in his arms, and just as he predicted it took Selphie approximately five minutes to answer the door.

"Hey Riku, I didn't expect you to be this early," Selphie said as she opened the door, then gasped at the bundle of roses, "Are these for me?" she was asking for a blatant reply.

"All for you," Riku replied in his deep masculine voice, handing them over to her.

She took them thankfully and left the door ajar allowing Riku to peek into her house where he watched her dump out a vase already full of flowers simply just to put the roses Riku gave her in it.

Before she could see catch Riku looking inside her home he looked away, "Ready?" asked Riku.

Selphie nodded, closing and locking the door behind her, "Yeah, I'm so excited about this date . . . to be truthful I never thought you'd ever ask me out," she remarked as she blushed.

He smirked, "Why is that?"

"Well, I mean, you don't ask girls out often . . ."

"You're different, Selphie."

She almost swooned, "He called me different," Selphie said mentally, then she remembered, "Oh Riku, Sora and Kairi will be joining us in a double date, do you mind?'

"No, not at all."

As they sat in the limo Riku had rented out Selphie couldn't help but stare and woo at his beauty.

How can a guy look so hot? The black suit he's wearing really brings out his shoulders, hmm, his gray button up shirt isn't tucked and some of the buttons at the top aren't buttoned, I wonder if he did on purpose, maybe he did it because he's aware of his hotness? I wouldn't doubt it. I still can't get over the fact that I saw him shirtless today. His silver hair looks so pretty. Oh no I think he caught me staring!

Riku broke his gaze from the window and to speak to Selphie, "That gold dress looks good on you."

He complimented me, what do I say, oh no--long awkward pause, say something Selphie!

"Thanks, you look pretty good yourself!" she replied in a rushed tone.

Great, Selphie, just great.

When arriving to their fancy dinner Riku opened the door for Selphie and she replied to his gentlemanly gesture with a timid, "Thanks."

Kairi was already waiting by the entrance of the waterfront restaurant dressed in a lavender dress that exposed her shoulders while Sora was in a dark brown suit with a red and blue striped neck tie.

"Riku picked you up in a limo?" asked Kairi as she neared both Riku and Selphie.

"Yeah, can you believe it?" Selphie replied, over-excitedly.

Noticing Riku Sora took this as an opportune moment to hide, "I'm going to go see if our table is ready," walking inside before anyone could reply.

"What's with Sora?" asked Selphie.

"He's been acting weird since this morning," Kairi answered then looked to Riku, "What do you think is wrong with him?"

"His injury probably has him a little irritable," he answered logically, as he took out a cigarette.

"Hey, you said you were going to quit!" the red head denounced.

"I am, this is my second one today," Riku replied honestly.

Selphie shook her head and folded her arms.

Sora was waiting inside, watching as both of the girls did lectured Riku in that motherly way about smoking. How could Riku act so dignified and calm knowing what he did earlier this morning? Sora was disgusted. Sora was certainly not jealous. In attempt to create serenity within himself he walked into the men's restroom, running the water and splashing water in his face. He had to act like a virgin if he didn't want the guilt of what happened to intrude his thoughts and actions. He had to get through and over with this.

A/N: I have an excuse to why this wasn't put up sooner. You see hurricane Dennis came and I had to evacuate. Dennis also stopped by to take my internet from me temporarily. Since I couldn't get this chapter up sooner than expected then I'll put up the next chapter up sooner. I noticed a lack of reviews in the last chapter . . . had there been more reviews I probably would've included the rest of the date in this chapter but the inspiration ran dry. Sorry it took so long.

Disclaimer: Look at the other ones it's not like the owner of Kingdom Hearts reads this anyways.