Chapter 5: Of Jokes and Fruit

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Passerby: Yeah… she's been all happy and stuff. Slightly slow, but she's figured out frequent updates keep people reading.

Kupo3.0: -clapping- -stops- Hey… I thought you were making an effort to be nicer now.

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Disclaimer: Until I have a large army and plenty of duct tape, I won't own Kingdom Hearts. –walks into Tape World: the Super Store- Blast, they don't sell armies!

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Kairi woke up from her first peaceful night of sleep since the first dream a few days ago. No more flashes of scenes appeared in her head, no more mysterious messages traveling through her mind. Sleep finally meant sleep again, so she was relieved.

After jumping into a shower and finishing a quick breakfast of toast and a banana, Kairi left her wooden house and shut the door behind her.

Walking, she saw the boys laying down on the shore near the walkway, she suddenly remembered what was supposed to happen the night before and sprinted over to them, plopping down where the waves could brush her feet.

Sora leaned up on his arms, opening his eyes and squinting at Kairi through the bright sun that had finally made a decent way up into the sky.

"Hey there. How'd you sleep, lucky duck who actually got to?" he grinned.

He almost immediately flopped backwards again at shut his eyes, enjoying the soothing cool coming from closing them.

She laid down on his left side with her arms down at her side and answered, "I slept well, actually. Peaceful. But, don't avoid the topic you know I'm going to ask. How did Selphie take the news from you, oh honorary leader?"

Sora shoved Kairi and chuckled. "She seemed fine, for hearing something so weird," he said, continuing, "She went off to sleep on it and think. I'd probably need time to register all of it too, I mean, she probably thought the only thing existing was our little string of islands. But as far as help, I think we're good, she seemed like she really was trying to accept it all."

Kairi followed all the puffs of clouds across the sky and asked, "Do you think we picked the right one? I mean, obviously not Wakka, he'd freak and all. But Selphie sometimes has trouble keeping stuff to herself. Trust me, I'd know, with her being the only girl our age around here."

Riku piped in, "Well, I kind of had the same though, but I suppose she does have us to talk to."

Kairi still seemed slightly apprehensive and said, "Well…yeah. Still, just as a person though, if you had to talk to someone else about all this to figure out if its real or not, wouldn't you talk to one of the people whose not trying to convince you its true? She'd probably want to see someone that's totally unbiased on the situation."

Sora replied, "Yeah, I suppose I see your point. But she seemed really trustworthy last night… I don't know what specifically, but she was open to listening and didn't laugh or anything. She just seemed really honest about it all."

Riku blew a silver strand of hair out of his face while saying, "We weren't there, so we'll have to believe what you're saying. But I just thought about this… it's our last déjà vu here, y'know?"

Kairi fiddled with the round bead on her necklace uneasily, concerned about the way he said that. "What do you mean? …we're always going to stick together."

Riku shifted his arms under his head and explained, "I mean, if you think about it, its true. We did this together the day before the Heartless came to the island, all laying together and just talking and looking at the sky. But… now that Selphie is in on everything, I just get a strange feeling, like, I don't know how to say it, but as if everything is going to change. Somehow… I know we had to do it to help the king, and we all care about him… but its kind of upsetting to me."

Kairi stared upward and said, "Yeah… cause it was just the three of us, always us three. But now she knows everything… and this might sound mean, but she's an outsider, not a part of us. I might be selfish, but it was us three… and I know things change but I don't really want it."

Riku was looking up hard, almost at something beyond the sky when he said, "Same way here. I don't know… its not bad so much as I feel that things will change… I might just be scared about us changing, I want to stay together."

Sora leaned up again and explained, "Guys… just because we can get closer to someone new doesn't mean that our relationship is going to change, 'kay? Don't look at it as an end of something… It's a new beginning, new adventure, something even more brilliant than before. There's a new threat to take on, but instead of seeing it as a trouble, it's a great opportunity… we live for adventure. Taking Selph in is just a milder adventure, cause we won't have to beat her up with giant keys."

Kairi giggled and pushed Sora back down on the beach and she said, "Don't sit up, it disturbs the déjà vu. And did you just say 'Selph'?? Whatever, anyway, I guess you're right. It's just new, and we shouldn't be afraid. I just…ugh, I'm not used to the 'alternative' adventure, okay?"

"None of us are. Just be excited, we can travel and see everyone again," Sora exclaimed.

Riku let a small smile out and sighed, "Everything is so simple in Sora World, isn't it?"

Kairi laughed, "You can say that again. We just have to stay together, forever."

"What the heck do you guys want me to do," Sora said, "…pick a paupu fruit?"

Even though he was joking, the other two fell suddenly quiet.

Sora felt a little sweatdrop run down his neck as he said, "Uh…guys? Are you serious?"

Kairi looked over at him and tried to explain, "Well…if the story is true…we'll never have to lose each other again. We'll always end up together, somehow."

She scratched her head and tried to lighten up the moment by saying, "And if it isn't true, we'll all get a good story and taste from it, right?"

They all just laid there enduring the awkward silence for about three minutes until they heard a door shut behind them.

Riku rolled over in the sand and then rolled back, stating, "It's Tidus. Looks like he's walking over towards Kairi's or Selphie's."

Sora stood up and said, "Whatever. I'm heading in for the night. See you guys."

He walked off and climbed up the steps to his house.

Kairi and Riku stood up and hugged each other goodnight and went to their homes too.

And the beautiful sunset sank with a blood red glow, seen by no one.

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Kupo3.0: Yeah, I know… the ending was a little bit of a downer. This chapter was longer than I expected, I thought their chat would be done by a third or half way through the chapter, but I guess not-

Passerby: Shut up! They don't want to hear your process!

Kupo3.0: You're getting to that mean place again. –frowns- Oh, please review readers.

Passerby: Nothing will make me smiley or tell you my name. …NOTHING!!!

Kupo3.0: -shrugs- Not even a cookie? –pulls orange cookie out from pocket-

Passerby: -grins- FWEE! My name is-