Kingdom Hearts: Before the Door
A Light in the Rain production
Neki © Light of Heaven and Kitty Fetish
Reni Concept © Kitty Fetish
Reni © Black Rainy
Kingdom Hearts Characters and Concept © Square Enix and Disney
Final Fantasy Characters © Square Enix
All rights reserved.
I LIVE!
What happened to you in the first place?
My internet committed suicide...—tears— It was a dark, dark time...
--pats back—I understand completely...
Oh! By the way!
What?
I HAVETH TANGERINES!!! –runs around squealing—
It's gunna be a good chapter...—sighs—
Chapter 9
"MOM NEKI'S GLARING!"
"NEKI STOP GLARING!"
"A STUPID STICKIN' SANDED DOWN STICK!" Neki yelled from the living room couch.
"Fine!" Sora cried and came into the living room holding two plates, "Here's a peace offering. I'm sorry I gave you a tool of destruction to my head." He placed one of the plates on the coffee table. It was strawberry cherry cheesecake; her favorite.
"CHEESE CAKE!" Neki squealed and picked up the plate of fork, then chomped on a big chunk of the dessert, "However, I'm still peeved." Sora sighed and set down the other plate as well, "Now we're even!" Neki scooted the plate closer to herself and snuggled into the couch.
"If you hate the present, then why do you still keep it?" Sora asked as he sat down.
"So I can do this!" She squealed, picked up the staff, and smashed it down on his head.
"MOM NEKI'S HITTING!"
"NEKI NO HITTING!"
"BUT HITTIN' FUN!!!"
--At Reni and Riku's house—
"You like her."
"You like him."
"Duh. But I'm not in denial."
"I'm not in denial."
"Dear brother you are in denial about a lot of things."
"Name two."
"You're in love with Neki, and gay with Sora."
"I AM NOT!"
"Denial."
"If you need me, I'll be smashing my head against a tree somewhere."
"Be sure to come home before dark."
"Right-o."
At Kairi's house
"What is it?" Kairi asked her maid.
The maid smiled sweetly, "It's a fortune teller. All the girls are using them!"
Kairi stared at it again, "But it's made out of paper…"
"That's why everyone is using it! It's so easy to make!"
Kairi shrugged and smiled, "What do I do?"
"Pick one of the names on the flaps," the maid said and showed Kairi the four names; Sora, Riku, Neki, Reni.
"Sora." No brainer…
"S-O-R-A. Now pick a number."
"Seven."
I don't like where this is going...
--evil grin—What? It's not like it's going to say she's going to die! That'd be harsh...
I don't know...
The maid counted to seven, going between opening it one way, to the other. Finally she said, "One more number."
"Two."
The maid opened up the flap labeled '2' and read it to Kairi, "You will have your heart stolen from you and placed in the hands of someone very dear to you. How lucky!"
"Lucky?"
"That means you're going to fall in love!" The maid squealed and gave the fortune thinger to Kairi, then left. Beaver walked over to her bed and sat down.
"Lucky... Love... She must mean Sora!" Kairi squealed happily, then put the paper fortune thinger on her dresser, then decided to go to bed.
Light...
--evil grin—What?
--shakes head—
--shrugs— I can live with myself.
Back at Sora and Neki's house
"Hey Sora!"
"What?" Sora started to turn around, and found the nub of Neki's staff pointed at his nose, "Oh no…"
WHACK!!!
"MOM NEKI'S HITTING!"
"NEKI NO HITTING!"
"BUT HITTIN' FUN!!!"
The phone rang, and Neki paused in her nightly brother beating longer enough to nab the phone, and rush back before Sora had a chance to move, "'Ello?"
"Are you still talking like that?" Riku's voice drawled.
"Like what?" She asked Riku with a sly smile.
"Like you're a southern island belle." Riku stated.
Neki shrugged even though he couldn't see it, "Whatever. Anyway, what's up?"
"Reni forced me to call you." Neki blinked and shrugged again.
"I like it when you call. No matter the circumstances."
"Wow! Big word for such a small girl!"
Neki growled, "I bet I have a bigger vocabulary than you!"
"Oh really?" Riku feigned shock.
Neki growled again, "Yes! Don't make me sound like I'm completely incompetent."
"But you are!" Riku laughed.
Neki felt her heart flutter, "Oh hush your mouth."
There was a brief silence followed by Riku asking, "Are you hitting Sora with the sanded down stick?"
"Maybe…"
"MOM SHE'S STILL HITTING!"
"NEKI STOP HITTING NOW! DON'T MAKE ME TAKE THAT PHONE AWAY FROM YOU!"
"MOM!" Sora whined, "TAKE THE STICK AWAY NOT THE PHONE!!!"
"NOT THE PHONE!" Neki wailed and stopped abusing Sora, "Please not the phooooooone."
Sumiko appeared in the hallway, "Then no more hitting, okay? No matter how much fun it is!" Sumiko added when she saw her daughter start to protest.
"Fine," another silence ensued, and then, "Mommy, do we have any tangerines?"
The Next Day
"Oh I've got tangerines! Yes I do! I've got tangerines and NONE FOR YOU!" Neki sang as she and Sora skipped over to Riku's and Reni's house.
"Yes! You have tangerines. ENOUGH ALREADY!"
Neki paused and looked at the still younger boy, despite his birthday with a blank stare before yelling, "NO TANGY FOR JOO!"
Sora growled in frustration, causing Neki to double over in laughter, "YOU SOUND LIKE A BABY LION!"
"How would you know what a baby lion growls like?"
Neki mulled over her answer before she spoke, "I know some people. Been places. Explored the worlds."
Sora rolled his eyes and started again for their friend's house. Neki skipped ahead, content that she told the truth—she said worlds instead of world—while being mysterious. Well she thought she was being mysterious, and that's all that matters, right? ...Right?
Right?
"I SMELL TANGERINES!" A voice squealed.
"I GOTS TANGIES!" Neki squealed back and glomped Reni, then ran and gave Riku a hug as well, "Want one?" Riku nodded, so she handed him one of the orange mounds, then threw another for Reni. Sora didn't get one. He yelled at the tangy song. So no tangy for So-chan. Yup.
"Wanna go to the secret place and eat 'em?" Reni asked in the same drawl as Neki.
"You betcha bottom dolla' on it!" Neki squeaked and ran off down the path with Reni, leaving the two boys in their dust.
"Oh. Please, no wait. Wait for us…" Sora called in his normal voice, unenthusiastically, "No, wait. Come back…"
Riku rolled his eyes and started after the two tangy happy girls, "Come on you big doofus."
"Don't call me a doofus, doofus!" Sora protested crossly. Riku shook his head.
"Fine. You ignoramus."
"Thank you." Sora said contently oblivious. Riku nodded his head and started to walk faster when he noticed that Neki and Reni were flailing around on one of the boats and appeared to be…sinking.
"Oh great. Stupid ignoramus girls…"
It was then Sora figured out what ignoramus meant.
As Riku bolted down the path, intent on saving Neki and Reni from walking around in wet clothes, Sora scowled, "HEY! DON'T CALL ME THAT EITHER!!!"
With Reni and Neki
Neki let out another blood curdling scream as the heel of her foot touched the water. Reni screamed as well, both her feet already in to her ankles, "WE'RE GOING TO DIE A WATERY DEATH!" Reni wailed.
"I WANNA DIE ON WONDERLAND WITH CHESSY!!!" Neki bawled and clung to Reni for dear life. Reni took a step toward the older girl, and slipped from her foot being soaked, then fell face first into the water, dragging Neki to her knees.
"RENI!"
"NEKI! Neki listen to me!" Reni pleaded in a hushed tone. Neki leaned forward to hear the younger child's final words, "Whatever happens…Never let go."
"Stop that kinda talk! You make it sounds like we'll never get outta 'ere alive!" Neki blubbered. Reni looked up at her.
"Promise me."
Neki sobbed quietly, but nodded, "I promise…" Reni face relaxed.
"Thank you."
After a few minutes of silence, Neki looked down at Reni, "Reni?" She didn't answer, "Reni?!" Neki said louder and gave her a quick shake. She still didn't answer. Her breath hitched in her throat as she peeled Reni's hands off her wrist, "I'm sorry. Reni…" She choked back a sob and looked at the distant shore.
Okay it wasn't so distant. And Riku was staring at her with a strange expression. And there are bubbles coming up from the water.
"…"
"NEKI?!" Riku called when he saw the blonde pale considerably.
"SEA MONSTER!" Neki screamed and jumped out of the boat, making a mad dash for Riku and the beach, "SEA MOOOOOONSTEEEEEEeeeerrrrrr!!!!!" Upon reaching said boy, she wrapped her arms around his neck and sighed into the crook of his neck, causing him to shiver, "I was so scared!"
The "sea monster" emerged from the water and growled, "I TOLD YOU NOT TO LET GO!"
Riku sweat dropped and sighed, "You were scared of that?" he asked and whipped her around to face a drenched and angry Reni.
"Well if I wasn't before, I certainly am now," Neki squeaked and bolted up the path, past a still peeved Sora, and all the way back to her house. Sora looked at Riku, then at the trail of dust left by his sister, then back at Riku.
"Fine, fine! I'll go get her," Riku sighed and started back up the hill.
At the play island...Finally...
Reni leaned against the bend of the lazy paopu tree, tangerine in hand, staring at it lovingly. Neki sat close by with her feet dangling above the water, also staring at her tangy lovingly. Riku at Sora sat closer to the island, staring at the odd pair.
"Are you going to eat them anytime soon?" Asked a riled up Riku. Dragging Neki back to the boats had been so difficult, that he ended up having to kiss her in front of her mother—on the cheek of course, seeing as he's a man of class—just to get her to shut up long enough to get to the island. He not only had ringing in his ears from Sumiko's squealing, but he had to drag ninety-five pounds of dead weight—metaphorically speaking—through the streets and down the hill, then to the lazy paopu tree.
Which meant stairs.
Which meant Neki had a bump on the back of her head.
Which meant Neki was mad at Riku.
You could tell by the death glare she was giving him.
"Hush your mouth!" Reni growled. She was mad because she was wet. However, she wasn't mad at Neki, simply because the older girl threatened to take the tangy back. They were buddies again. All thanks to the power of the tangy.
"I think tangerines are the best fruit ever!" Neki sighed, slouching slightly. Reni nodded her agreement and leaned further into the bend of the tree.
"Isn't it horrible how people lump tangerines in with sour ol' oranges?" Reni asked. Neki nodded and Reni continued, "I mean—really now!—How can people think that this easy to peel small lump of sweetness is anything close to an orange!"
"You tell 'em sista'!" Neki whispered and raised her hands like people in churches on television do, "Faram!"
Riku and Sora exchanged looks, but stayed quiet.
There was a small silence, before Neki sustained the conversation, "It's like saying green grapes are the same as red grapes!" The two boys shared another look.
Then Sora made his mistake.
"But aren't they the same?"
Neki tensed, and Reni sat up. Both had a look of utter disgust on their faces.
Neki was the first to speak, "Red grapes are seedless!" She looked appalled.
"And sweeter!" Reni finished, mimicking the look. Then it dawned on the two and they did the creepy unison thing.
"Are you saying that you think tangerines and oranges are the same?"
Sora looked from one to the other before trying to swallow the lump in his throat and answering, "Well, aren't they?"
Neki glared at Sora and took out the staff, while Reni readied one of her arrows.
Riku hopped down from his spot and ran across the bridge, "IT'S BEEN NICE KNOWING YOU SORA!" Then he disappeared.
"What?!" Sora asked wildly, looking like a frightened cat. It almost stopped the two from beating him to death.
Almost being the key word.
"SOMEBODY SAVE ME!!!"
End
So what do you think?
I think we both need to seek help...
I'LL NEVER GO BACK!
--stare—Okay...Something tells me you and Kitty have rooms already...
Yeah. The straight jackets are rather fun. And they always have potatoes on hand...But I don't like the guy ith the cage, or the guy with the big needle...
Right...
Oh! By the way, Guy With Cage had a baby!
He was married?
Yeah, to Receptionist Lady. They named her Girl with Rattle. Isn't that cute?
Right...Um Light. Is that Guy With Cage, there?
--looks-- ... RUN AWAY!!!
Yeah...We'll see you later Light... –sigh—Anyway, see ya'll next time.
Guy With Cage: You do know you don't have a drawl?
I HAVE A DRAWL!!!
CWG: Hm…In denial huh? –hands you card—Here's the mental institutes card. Give us a call when you finally admit you have no drawl. We'll be there with soy pudding with added sugar to help.
I HAVE A DRAWL CHOCOLATE!
CWG: If you say so. Now, if you'll excuse me... LIGHT GET IN THE CAGE!
I DON'T LIKE THE CAGE!!!
Next chapter's authoress: Black Rainy!
See you next time!
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Okay I'm done