Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Playful violence, cussing, and shonen/shoujo-ai. Character bashing as well. If you like Kairi, don't read.
Disclaimer: Sora, Riku, Kairi, and anything else Kingdom Hearts related is not mine. Don't sue, because I don't claim to own the game. Hoofamon is also not mine. He belongs to Ryoko-Pegasus. Use him without permission and Ryoko will sue.
Claimer: Ongereol, Ryushiimon, Yukimon, Kebekol, Nanashi, Nameless, Zander, and Solange all belong to me. They are my characters, and if you use them without permission, I will sue.
Summary: The three main characters of Kingdom Hearts suddenly find themselves in our world. Meanwhile, Solange (er, the authoress's character...) is playing matchmaker with Riku and Sora. Yesh, shonen-ai, whee!
A/N: Character Guide:
Ongereol and Ryushiimon are twins. They're both half Digimon.
Yukimon is half-Digimon.
Kebekol is half dragon demon.
Nanashi, Nameless, and Zander are my muses.
Solange is, well, me.
Chapter Two – Hitomi no Umi
The three humans stared at Solange, shocked and confused. The girl stared back, and they would have stayed that way for a long time had a loud groan been heard from Ongereol.
"Why me...why me, I ask you...dammit, GET OFF!" he roared. Sora and Kairi scrambled off unceremoniously, startled by Ongereol, but Riku climbed off gracefully, glaring at the part Digimon.
"Dear God, it's always me. First my sister, then Takara, and now it's the three freaks from Kingdom Hearts?! What the he— ...holy shit, it's the three freaks from Kingdom Hearts!"
Riku was glaring death at the black-haired teenager when a hand suddenly grabbed the back of his shirt and dragged him off onto the bus. Sora instinctively followed, and Solange sat them down before sitting down herself.
"Go to school like usual, guys," she called to Ongereol, Ryushiimon, Yukimon, and Kebekol, the last three with priceless 'WTF?' expressions on their faces, the first just looking POed. As the bus pulled away, the four half-breeds looked at each other.
"Well, we should get to school," Kebekol said at last, turning into a colossal dragon with shining green scales and flapping his leathery wings. He soared off into the sky, the other three following suit, Ongereol, Ryushiimon, and Yukimon in their Digimon forms, the twins looking like bobcats with fox tails and wings, and the other a fox-wolf with wings as well. Kairi was left alone, looking around frantically.
"What's happening?! Sora?! What happened?! Sora-kun, save meeee!" She ran, looking for him, but was stopped by a sudden sound.
"Quack?"
She whirled around, seeing a chubby white duck with an orange beak and feet, who was looking at her with cute black eyes. Gasping, she reeled back. "...Donald? Is that you?" She held out her hand. "It's me, Kairi!"
Another duck, which was scraggly-looking and was missing some feathers, waddled up to stand beside its friend. "Quaaack." It stood up tall, pecking at Kairi's hand, and she backed away.
"No, don't do that! It huuuurts!" she wailed, nursing a red welt on her hand. The ducks crowded around her, chattering away in their language, jumping up and trying to find bread. "Bad ducks! Bad!"
Upon hearing her words, their eyes narrowed and turned red, and they ran after her, quacking furiously. The miniskirted girl screamed so loudly that crows in the woods flew away with indignant caws. Kairi, for her part, dashed away from the now-rabid fowl. They chased her in circles, up and down the street, through the woods and back towards their pond. Panting, she ran as fast as she could, her hair sticking up everywhere, her clothes ripped from fighting through brambles. Her skin itched – possibly poison ivy?
"Sora!" she sobbed, the two ducks flapping after her. "Help me! Oh please, help me!!"
Sora looked worried.
"Will Kairi be okay?"
"I'm sure she's fine," Solange reassured him, smiling.
...Why do suddenly I doubt that? she and Riku wondered.
...Oh well.
"AIIIIIEEEE!!!"
Kairi fell with a big splash into the polluted, algae-ridden pond. The ducks swam after her, quacking madly, their beaks snapping. Scared, the girl paddled as fast as she could, then realized an important fact: she couldn't swim. Then, to her horror, she saw long, slimy tentacles reaching up from the water.
"No!" she choked as they wrapped around her. "Please no!" The tentacles didn't let go, even when she thrashed as hard as she could, the ducks watching and quacking in what seemed to be an amused way.
"Someone help me! Someone...bllrllrbbblrllrrrrrb..."
She disappeared under the water amid bubbles, and then all was still. But soon there was a disturbance on the placid black surface of the pond - the creature had spat her back out, and Kairi lay floating unconscious on the water's surface, eyes closed.
Mary Sues... ugh, they make me sick, the creature thought as it swam away. Taste awful... left a bad taste in my mouth, too... I hope a litterbug drops some Listerine in here.
Meanwhile, as the bus bounced down the road, the three people stared at each other.
"Um...my name's Solange," the blonde girl said lamely.
"Sora," the Key Wielder said, looking around. "What is this?"
Riku glared at Solange, who sweatdropped. "It's a bus," she said, ignoring Riku's snort. "It transports people from place to place." As the brunette nodded uncertainly, the bus slowed to a stop, and more people got on. No one noticed Riku and Sora, expect for one girl with short reddish hair, who stared at them amazedly.
"...Sora? Riku?" The two males in question turned to look at the older girl, a sophomore, then back at Solange. The blonde waved to the other girl. "Hey, Dragi. They, er, dropped out of nowhere," she said, knowing it was a pathetic explanation. "I have no idea why." Dragi, as she was called, sat down in front of the three, and after semi-introductions, the two Earthians began to explain about their world as best they could.
As the bus rumbled on down the road, a few people began to glance curiously at Riku and Sora, and Solange really couldn't blame them. They didn't exactly dress like 'normal' people, but what was normal anymore? However, no one these people had ever seen wore anything quite like what Sora and Riku were wearing. Riku - not even counting his silver-blue hair and aquamarine eyes - with his yellow and black tank top and big poofy pants, was a sight within itself. Not to mention the black belts (which crossed over his chest in an X-shape), the belts that held his pants together, and the smaller belts on his ankles made him the strangest-looking person most humans had ever seen. This didn't seem to stop a few girls from admiring him, though, and really, who could blame them? Sora, although appearing a bit more human-like with his spiky brown hair (that the authoress wishes to pet), and his beautiful blue eyes, painted another unique picture, to say the least.
Zander, who was riding behind Stephanie and the two boys from Destiny Islands, poked his head over the top of the green bench-like seat, his dark blue-green eyes inquisitive. "You know, Sora, you could probably impale someone on that stuff," he said, poking a soft chocolate-hued spike of hair, grinning.
"Want to try it, Zander-kun?" Nanashi asked, her eyes glinting wickedly, and held up a hand to push her fellow muse into the boy's hair.
Solange sighed as her two muses began to fight – well, one in self-defense – and looked at Sora. "Sorry," she apologized, rolling her eyes and grimacing whilst Draggy stared. "They're always like this."
The small boy seemed to accept the apology, but asked, "How did he know my name?"
"You introduced yourself earlier, dipshit," Nanashi snorted, pushing Zander's face into the seat and sitting on his head, ignoring muffled, frantic requests for air. "I had hoped at least one of you had a brain. But you're just as stupid as the rest."
Sora had just whipped out his Keyblade and Riku reached out his hand to (presumably) strangle the muse of angst and violence, when Nameless finally moved. Normally passive and shy, the actually ageless girl who appeared nineteen, quietly put her hand between the two boys and her girlfriend. (Yep, Nanashi and Nameless are shoujo-ai.) "Please don't fight. It's just a little thing, don't lose your head over it."
"She insulted us!" Sora barked, his eyes raging with simmering anger.
"It's just her way, her nature. She can't help it if she's rude."
"I'll help her," Riku growled, sea green eyes furious, and whipped out a dagger that not even Sora knew he had. Made of a foreign metal with a silver hilt, at the very top of the blade lay an ocean blue stone. Small, shining, and perfectly round, it was embedded deep within the metal. Solange blinked at the weapon.
"Shiny...pretty!"
Nameless, with surprising swiftness, took hold of the dagger and spoke softly. "Please don't be so rash. Violence is evil and wrong. It teaches nothing. It has no use." She met Riku's eyes, which were a bit startled. "Use it for something better next time." She handed it back and turned to the window, her expression growing vague again, as if lost in a daydream. The listeners stared for a while, and just as Riku had opened his mouth to speak again, the bus bumped into the high school. There was a sudden wave of movement as students grabbed their backpacks and headed for the building, chattering loudly as they did so.
Solange looked out the window as she waited for the people to let her into the bus aisle so she could get out of the vehicle. "Hey, there they are!" she grinned, waving at Yukimon, Ongereol, Ryushiimon, and Kebekol.
"Hey...Solange?"
The girl looked around to see the brown-haired, blue-eyed Sora looking at her. "Hm?"
"...What are we supposed to do?" Riku, too, looked like he wanted to know the answer to this question.
"Just follow me. We'll work it out as we go." The two boys looked at each other, but followed, albeit uneasily. As the four (Nameless had joined them) walked toward Yukimon and the others, Nanashi looked at the dagger attached to Riku's belt, her eyes slightly narrowed. That stone... it reminded her of something.
"Hitomi no umi..."
Riku turned and gave the girl a strange look. "What?"
Nanashi snapped back to reality. Shaking her head, startled, she gave him a snide look and a snort. "Keep your damn nose out of other people's business, will you?"
Riku didn't look that angry, but stepped closer to the girl and spoke softly, like a rattler's hiss: "Listen to me. If you do anything to Sora – anything – to make him angry, sad, or hurt, or otherwise less than happy in any way, I will make your pathetic life miserable. Do you understand me?"
"Crystal clear, PMS boy," Nanashi said in a bored tone of voice, pushing past him. Riku followed, the look in his eyes enough to give someone chills. "I mean it. Keep your mouth shut and your hands off him. Or I will gut you."
"Possessive much?" the muse of angst asked, still sounding as if she found this extremely uninteresting and not threatening at all.
Caught off guard for possibly the first time in his life, Riku asked, "What?"
Nanashi stopped walking and looked at him, a slightly amused grin curving her thin mouth. "Oh, come on. You haven't noticed? Or maybe you're in denial...I don't think so, but maybe."
Now Riku was confused and angry. Not a good combination in his case. (Run, people, run... 99 ) "What are you talking about?"
"Isn't it obvious? Honestly, the stone in your dagger is a giveaway if I ever saw one. It's time to start thinking about what you really want in life. I mean, come on. Sapphire. Just like those eyes." Shaking her head, the girl gave Riku a fleeting wave before heading off to class. Riku hurried to catch up with Sora and his new acquaintances, hands in his pockets, thinking.
Hitomi no umi...