Riku's Pretend Lovelife: Kairi

Riku was awesome. He knew it, too. He wasn't just awesome, though, he told himself as he looked in the mirror. He was a snazzily dressed, irresistible sizzling hot piece of walking sex if he did say so himself. (And he did).

That's what he decided, anyway. He was just thinking about it in depth when his pocket vibrated.

"Yes?" he answered, practicing his suave voice.

"Stop, you sound like one of those phone sex operators," Kairi's voice came across the line.

"What?! Are you calling me a cheap hooker?" Riku protested, not bothering with the smooth sexy voice for now.

"No, actually I'm calling you LATE. Stop primping and get over here already." she hung up on him.

Riku looked at his phone in indignation. How could she! And he was working so hard to look so great for their date! (Not that he needed to try very hard to look this good.)

Riku looked in the mirror again. "I wasn't primping," he told it, before grabbing his jacket off his desk chair and heading out the door.

Riku pulled up to Kairi's house in his black mustang, a sixteenth birthday gift from his parents, who had joked that for his next birthday they were getting him a haircut. He thought of just honking as usual, but remembered that this was technically supposed to be a date, thus he lazily drug himself all the way out of the car and up to her door.

Namine answered his knock. "Hi, Riku. You look really good," she complimented, politely letting him in the door.

"Yeah," he responded, shoving his hands in his pockets. "Where's our favorite redhead? Don't tell me she's primping or she's got another thing coming," he swore.

Kairi came down the stairs a second later. She had planned on just going out there when she saw Riku pull up, but reminded herself that this was a date and she should probably stay in her room until the last possible second.

Riku grinned as she bounced down the stairs and slipped her shoes on. "Ooooo, did you go buy a new outfit?" he asked, surveying her cute little skirt and top. He knew Kairi and Sora's wardrobes like the back of his hand. It happened when you spent so much time with a person. (Though occasionally Sora did surprise him with a random belt he thought was new because the kid had so many he hadn't worn in it years.)

"Of course. That's what girls do before a date," Kairi informed him, noticing that HE was wearing new clothes, too. She shook her head. Predictable, her best friend was. Worse than Sora.

"Lets blow this popsicle stand," Kairi announced after she finished slipping on her shoes. "You gonna be okay?" she asked Namine.

Namine nodded. "Yeah, I think I'm going to call up Axel or Roxas or something," she said, reassuring her sister. Really, Namine might end up just popping in a movie and staying home she thought, but she wasn't going to tell Kairi that.

"You're next, Namine," Riku warned her, before Kairi pulled him out the door.

Riku slid into the driver's seat of his car before he noticed Kairi just standing outside her door. "Its unlocked," he said, starting the car.

"Were you born in a barn? Come open the door for me you narcissist," Kairi shook her head.

Riku bit his lip. Duh! He was too used to just hanging out with Kairi just as them. Just as friends. Right, date. This is a date.

Riku hopped out of the car and met Kairi's mock-annoyed gaze with an apologetic look. "Good thing you picked me first for your little experiment, otherwise we'd have a serious rumor going around about how you may be sexy but you're completely inept at dating," she warned him, pulling her legs inside the car and letting Riku shut the door.

"How many dates have you been on, miss thang?" Riku asked, putting the car in drive.

Kairi almost looked embarrassed for a second. "Uh…well…with Sora…" she tried to think of a time that ever was actually a date. She giggled sort of shyly after a second. "Guess none of those times ever counted."

Riku stared at her as if he didn't understand why people breathed air.

"Watch the road, you moron!" Kairi called out suddenly, and Riku swerved to avoid the elderly.

"Sorry, I was just surprised," he said. Kairi's first date? But, she was so cute! With her perky red hair and her bright smile and that not-quite-pink dress she liked to wear. Riku didn't get it. He was ashamed of every guy ever in existence at that very moment.

"Well, don't rub it in. Since I already seem more aware of how to do this than you do," she pointed out. "Either that or you're just a jackass."

"That could be it," Riku admitted, as he turned left and cut off a pedestrian who was perfectly well trying to cross the road legally.

"Where are we actually going?" Kairi asked, surveying her surroundings for the first time.

"Is it supposed to be a surprise?" Riku asked. He'd only planned to take her to eat at somewhere he knew they both liked.

Kairi shrugged. "A surprise is kind of cute and thoughtful. Make sure you know a little about the girl before you pick somewhere, though. Like 'Surprise we're going to a Monster Truck Rally!' only works on someone like Tifa."

Had Riku thought about it, it might be weird that Kairi was giving him advice on how to date. He was RIKU, he was only innately good at everything, perfectly intelligent and uber sexy. You can't really BE this hott and not be a sweetheart with the ladies.

Though according to Kairi, he wasn't so ept as he once thought. "Are you gonna sit down?" he asked, once they'd arrived at the restaurant.

Kairi sighed and sat down. "I KNOW I've made you watch chick flicks before, Riku. You didn't pull my chair out and you didn't even hold the door for me!" Kairi kicked him under the table.

"Is this a hint to play footsie?" he asked. Kairi kicked him again, hard. "Ow! Okay, I guess not!"

"Tell me you have table manners," Kairi asked, as the waiter dished out their menus. Kairi watched Riku put his napkin on his lap and she just about sighed with relief.

"Geeze, Kairi. Don't you have any faith in me at all? Look, just chill for the rest of the night, and I'll make the smooth moves. At the end, you can tell me what went wrong and what was way too awesome for you to handle."

Kairi smoothed her napkin across her lap. "Okay, okay. I'm just worried this plan of yours is going to backfire in your face," she admitted. Riku was just out to keep himself occupied, and his friends knew that. Still, Kairi didn't want any of their friends to accidentally fall for him, or worse, several of their friends, and Riku to nonchalantly break their hearts. Not to mention Riku would be mortified if some rumor started getting around that he was the worst date they'd ever had.

Riku nudged her foot under the table. "It'll be fine, really."

Sora turned the corner, grocery bag in hand. He immediately distanced himself exactly 2.5 feet from Roxas, who was walking next to him with what seemed like a perma-scowl on his face. It was Friday, and since their little episode on Monday, Sora and Roxas had been avoiding each other like the plague. Sora, trying to think of ways to be supposedly 'less embarrassing', and Roxas, trying to think of what Sora's problem was.

Roxas sighed in an annoyed fashion. "Stop doing that," Sora snapped immediately. Roxas looked directly at him and did it again.

Sora was about to comment, when all his attention was grabbed and completely thrown at the window they had just walked by. "Hey, isn't that Riku and Kairi?"

Roxas stopped at his inquiry and peered into the window where Sora was staring intently. "Yep," Roxas said, boredly, seeing Sora's best friends chatting idly over dinner. He made to walk off but Sora grabbed his arm abruptly.

"They're on a date, aren't they?" Sora asked pointedly, pressing his finger against the glass to point at them.

Roxas just stared down at Sora's grip on his arm. "So? I thought they planned it? What's the big deal?" He tried to pull his arm away from Sora, but he wouldn't let go. In fact, Sora pulled him closer and whined.

"Ahhh, I feel so left out," he sighed. Roxas rolled his eyes at Sora, not being able to help but pat his arm. "Left out from a date, or left out from Kairi and Riku?" he asked, to be sure.

"Booooth," Sora said, sighing again.

Roxas shrugged. "Not like Riku's on an ACTUAL date with her. So lets just go home and-"

"Lets STALK them!" Sora said suddenly.

Roxas stared at him. He waited for the 'haha joking'. But it didn't come. "What?" he finally asked. "Why?"

"Cause I'm BORED and it could be AMUSING and I want to KNOW what happens!" Sora pulled Roxas back around the corner they had just come around, as it looked like Riku and Kairi had finished their meal and we're getting ready to leave.

Roxas appreciated that Sora seemed to have forgotten he was avoiding him. Well, they weren't carrying anything that needed to be refrigerated in their grocery bags so… "I guess we can spy on them a little," he pulled Sora a little further around the corner. "But you have GOT to be more sneaky than that. You can't just stand in plain sight."

"-because that would work. You know Sora's faster than me," Riku's voice floated out of the restaurant.

"Riku, ANYONE is faster than you," Kairi's voice joined him.

"Awww, they're talking about me!" Sora blurted out, and Roxas covered his mouth, pressing him against the brick wall of the small Italian place. "Shhhh!" he ordered, quietly. Sora tried to mumble something under Roxas' hand, but Roxas squeezed his arm. "Be quiet, Sora. Not that its embarrassing enough to be stalking them, it would be even worse if they ACTUALLY found us."

Sora fell silent. He knew Roxas still thought he was embarrassing. He narrowed his eyebrows, determined. Well, he'd just have to prove Roxas wrong!

"Shhh!" he told Roxas, pointedly and for no real reason. "They're getting into the car!" Sora recognized the chirp of Riku's car indicating it was unlocked.

Both boys craned their necks around the corner. Kairi had bent down (Well, squatted. How could she wear such a short skirt?) and picked up a hot pink flier. Neither Sora nor Roxas could hear what they were saying, but they appeared to be reading it and pointing to a small vendor that had staked out next to the Italian place. The place was called "Sibbie's Scooter Rentals" and had a sign with a cartoony looking couple riding a moped, their exhaust emitting the word 'VROOM!' in giant letters.

Riku's car chirped again and the two abandoned it for the moped stand. "Are they gonna rent a moped? That's way too romantic for just friends," Sora pointed out. Roxas shrugged. Riku may have some magic plan to stay attached yet not, but he could very well fall for one of the girls he dated.

"How are we gonna follow them now?" Roxas asked, pulling Sora out from around the corner as Kairi and Riku put helmets on and started to climb on their newly rented moped.

Sora tapped his chin thoughtfully. "We'll be on a date!" he decided, waiting for Riku and Kairi to leave and pulling Roxas towards the scooter place. "If we hurry and get one, we can catch up to them!"

"What?!" Roxas said, willing his face not to turn red AGAIN. "Sora! But that's-!"

But Sora was already inquiring as to the price.