Chapter one

Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts. Duh.

Warning: This story is really AU.

This was not supposed to happen. She was supposed to go to school, have a normal day, eat the lunch her mom had packed for her, and generally be happy. She was not on the other hand supposed to have a bad day, be humiliated, and fall hopelessly in love with a pair of eyes. Kairi had certain standards for herself. She currently felt that those standards were lowering as she thought about it. She couldn't even say that she was feeling bad about it. This was how low she had sunk!

And it all started on a Tuesday in March. Kairi and Selphie were walking home from school chatting happily about something Kairi couldn't rightly remember. Maybe about Tidus or some guy they thought unbearably cute.

The sun was out and Kairi was enjoying listening to Selphie's happy rambling when she heard a loud yell. Selphie was still preoccupied with telling Kairi about her day and didn't seem to notice. Kairi turned around curiously expecting to see a quarreling couple or a group of kids playing a heated game of tag. What she didn't expect to see were two kids around her age dressed in street clothes fighting.

She didn't recognize either of them. One boy was tall with light silvery hair. He was laughing uproariously as the other boy tried to lunge at him and ended up tripping over his own larger than life feet. The boy who fell, Kairi saw wasn't angry at his 'friend' but was grinning madly from his position on the ground.

They were odd and Kairi didn't know what to think about them. Were they new or something? Nobody new ever came to Destiny Islands. Maybe they were just tourists or something. That would explain why she hadn't ever seen them before. They seemed to be having a lot of fun though...Kairi looked at Selphie who was still yammering on and sighed. Maybe tomorrow she could trade Selphie in for one of those boys. She chuckled, that would be nice.

"Hey, look, Kairi." Selphie's voice broke into her thoughts. She turned to see Selphie staring into the distance where those two boys were fooling around.

"Yeah, who are they? Are they new or something?" The best source for island gossip was Selphie. She prided herself on this fact although it made it very difficult to tell her things. Kairi's favorite name for Selphie in blabber mode was big mouth. This always resulted in a very huffy Selphie but Kairi found a huffy Selphie to be a quiet Selphie.

"Uh-huh, they moved from one of our neighboring islands, I forget which one though. That guy with the long hair is hot, huh?" Kairi rolled her eyes. She knew Selphie would bring up that topic. Poor guys were going to have a hard time evading Selphie's hawkeye. They would be on their own for a while until the girls got a whiff of single male hottie and rushed to claim them.

"Are they brothers maybe?" Kairi couldn't stop the questions from pouring out of her traitorous mouth. Selphie would know now that she was interested. Kairi prayed that Selphie was too interested herself to pay attention to Kairi's sudden bout of curious questioning.

Selphie cast her a thoughtful glance but then answered in an equally thoughtful voice. "No, but I heard they're really close or something. I was going to go over and introduce myself, you wanna come too?" Selphie could be nosy sometimes but Kairi knew she was just as curious as she was. Feeling suddenly awkward she said something she would probably always regret.

"No, I bet they already have girlfriends." Kairi heard the words come out of her mouth, reconsidered them and blurted out the next best thing. "I-I mean we might see them in school tomorrow and we can introduce ourselves then."

Selphie just stared at her with a shocked expression on her pert face. Kairi blushed under her shocked gaze.

"Kairi, did you say they might already have girlfriends?"

"Selphie you know what I meant to say. I really don't know if we should just intrude on them like, you know, you were planning for us to do. They might not like it."

She sighed. "Oh, Kairi, I know what you meant but come on, we might not even get a chance to. The girls at school will be on them like flies on honey."

"That's bees on honey, and I don't feel comfortable just going over and introducing myself out of the blue."

Without another word Selphie marched toward the two boys. Kairi stared after her in surprise. Selphie looked at her over her shoulder mouthing 'come on!' Kairi frowned but trotted along behind her. Sometimes you just had to make sure your friends didn't make fools of themselves right?