Chapter 7
Disclaimer: Sorry. Me no own KH.
Cid muttered a curse as he tripped over something in the dark. Sora and Riku were going to get a serious thrashing when they got back.
A small ray of sunlight was the only light he had to go by. He stumbled toward the window and jerked the horrible spotted curtain open. Merlin could have made a more fashionably...tasteful place for them to stay.
"I hate this damn place. All these people are so bright and cheery and the sun's too damn bright!" Cid threw up an arm to shield his eyes from the blinding, golden, sunny, happy, sunlight.
All of this because everyone else didn't feel like going.
He'd tried to persuade Leon and Aerith to go in his stead but they'd denied in favor of doing something more "useful" like cleaning up and reclining lazily in Cid's puffy armchair. Plus they'd all agreed that Cid was the perfect candidate for the job because he was tough, insensitive, annoyingly smart, old enough to be Riku and Sora's father (or grandfather according to Leon), and they really really wanted to get rid of him.
And that was how he Cid had ended up journeying to this dinky little world Sora and Riku were originally from. Sora and Riku felt it was their duty to restore their island to its senses and in effect, Kairi to hers. The job would be big, humongous, difficult, and complex, but they were all for it. Merlin had been the one to suggest they send someone to be their "guardian".
Cid turned and looked at the place where he would be spending many days and nights in and recoiled in horror. There was a shower curtain on the floor, puddles of water everywhere, and bandages decorating chairs and even the ceiling fan. A rat sat in the corner nibbling on a cracker crumb. Cid blanched and stumbled back into the bathroom. Then he tripped over the ugly bathroom rug that had little orange and pink turtles and fish shaped like sticks on it. That was when he REALLY started to hate the Destiny Islands with all his surly will.
Until he landed into a bathtub filled with dirty laundry. Then he despised the Destiny Islands and cursed all the locals with color blindness and eating disorders. Then he leaned over, turned on the faucet, and prepared for a nice long soak before the boys came home.
Sora was humiliated. Kairi had pulled away from him so fast and hadn't even glanced at him before going to help Selphie. When they were all standing Kairi was sweating and tapping her foot like mad and Riku looked both disgusted and slightly sick. Selphie was grinning and Sora was, well, humiliated.
"We're sorry, that guy pushed us into you," Sora ground out in a rush, casting Riku a weird look that Riku didn't want to interpret because it looked pretty bad. Instead, he laughed and extricated Selphie's hand from his quickly. Selphie pouted and went to stand next to Kairi who looked like she'd been hit in the face with a piping hot pie.
"It's no problem. We were coming to meet you and it was just bad luck you ran into Little Shasa. He's just a big, fat bully with a girly name." Kairi then grinned inwardly as Riku, Sora, and Selphie grinned outwardly.
Selphie sidled up in between Kairi and Sora. "Hey guys, you need to get to class." Riku and Sora gave her a slightly annoyed look but nodded.
"Do you know where your classes are?" Kairi's voice sounded from behind Selphie's big head. Silence followed as Riku thought about that and Sora looked away to avoid Selphie's annoying gaze. Really she was quite annoying.
The author, after much thought and consternation...
Selphie fell into a nearby garbage can because of her enormous head. Kairi laughed at Riku and Sora's looks, not Selphie falling into the nearby trash can because nobody really noticed her falling in there.
"I guess I should show you guys to the office right?" Kairi laughed and began walking in the direction of the office. Sora and Riku, not looking at the struggling and/or yelling Selphie in the nearby garbage can, ran after Kairi.
"Wait up!" Sora yelled through a laugh (which is very hard to do). Kairi waited, mind straying to Selphie's whereabouts. She must have been afraid of being late to class again and gone on ahead.
Meanwhile:
Selphie was slowly dying of trash and gunk inhalation outside the school. Little Shasa, who'd wandered outside the school for almost 5 minutes after knocking over Sora and Riku decided to investigate these scrawny legs sticking out of that stinking trash can.
Her shoe was gone. Selphie could feel a sudden breeze on her right foot. She struggled all the more hoping fate or some kind of prince would come and rescue her. Riku sure wasn't going to do it.
Trash induced conversation in Selphie's brain:
Riku: I'm sure not going to do it.
Sora: Me either. Plus I don't like guys.
Selphie: I'm not a guy!
Selphie's mom: Yeah, about that... you sorta are.
Selphie: How can this be!
Sora: Ew.
Riku: Double ew. He hit on me!
Selphie: How could I not know I was a guy?
Selphie's mom: Because you're fictional...?
Selphie: What does that have to do with anything?
Riku: Well, being fictional, the author can give you anything. Than includes acne, a big nose, duck feet, Barney's lips, or male parts. It depends on how demented the author is basically.
Little Shasa stole Selphie's shoes and decided to give them to his girlfriend, Benny. The legs wriggling out of the trash can were very nice to give him those shoes. Selphie cried herself to sleep.
pReSs the small purply button s'il te plait.