Narrator's POV

"Ven, Aqua, I'd like to introduce to you my daughters Kairi and Naminé," Terra said.

"And you said I'd been busy," Ventus chuckled.

Terra glared at him.

The girls smiled politely. One of them, the one Terra had introduced as Kairi, had reddish-brown hair. The other, Naminé, was blonde. The two of them looked remarkably similar. If you didn't know better, you'd have thought they were twins.

Riku patted Roxas and Sora on their shoulders. "I'll leave you two to continue your crushing on the new girls."

"I'm not crushing!" Roxas whispered hoarsely.

"And neither am I!" Sora added.

Riku scoffed. "Yeah, right. See ya!"

The two brothers glared at Riku's back as he ran off.

"Kairi, Naminé, this is Ventus Stormer and his wife Aqua," Terra said to his daughters. "They're old friends of mine."

"Hello, Mr. Stormer," Kairi extended her hand to Ventus. Her voice is magnificent, Sora thought.

Ventus shook her hand and laughed. "Such exquisite manners! Please, Kairi, call me Ven. Everyone else does."

Aqua walked forward and extended her hand to Naminé. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Naminé."

Naminé smiled. "Likewise." Her voice is awesome, Roxas thought, almost exactly mirroring his little brother's thought about Kairi.

"Girls," Terra continued the introductions, "this is Sora and Roxas, Ven and Aqua's sons."

"H-hi," the boys stammered.

The girls just smiled.

Xion came to Roxas. "You are so crushing."

"And you need to stop hanging out with Riku," Roxas quipped.

"Boys, Xion, let's leave Terra and his girls to unpack. It's time for dinner anyway," Aqua said then.

"Okay," the three replied.

"I'll see you around, Ven," Terra farewelled his friend.

"You can count on it," Ventus replied.

Sora's POV

"Man, Kairi's a looker," I said to my brother as we walked home.

"Yeah, she's OK, I guess," Roxas replied, "but Naminé looks better, in my opinion."

Naminé's POV

"That Roxas is a cutie," I said to Kairi.

"He's OK for you, maybe, but not me," my sister answered.

"Yeah, that Sora guy's more your type," I giggled.

"I'm not interested in him, OK?"

Narrator's POV

Terra turned to his daughters at the same time Ventus turned to his sons.

"Will you two just shut up?" they said at the same time, though neither knew about the other's situation.

The next day, Riku shanghaied Sora and Roxas into talking to Kairi and Naminé about the Way to the Dawn Festival, an annual event in Destiny Islands. The two brothers walked nervously to the door of the house, which now bore a small sign that read, 'Shoreline'.

"You knock," Roxas said.

"No, you knock," Sora replied.

"Why me?"

"Because you're older than me."

"By, like, two weeks."

"So? You're still 17, while I'm still 16."

In the end, neither of them had to knock, because the door opened. Kairi and Naminé walked out with towels over their arms. They were dressed for the beach.

"Oh!" they exclaimed when they saw the quarrelling brothers.

"Uh, hi!" Sora greeted them, being the first one to muster up the courage to speak.

"Sora and Roxas, right?" Kairi asked.

"Yep, that's us! Are you going to the beach?"

"Yeah!" Naminé chimed in. "You two wanna come?"

Kairi's POV

I turned Naminé around quickly. "What are you, nuts?" I whispered to her.

"No, I wanna make an impression on Roxas. Besides, Sora likes you. I can see that. And I can also see that-"

"I don't like him!"

"Yeah, right."

Roxas' POV

"Uh, what's going on?" Sora asked.

"It's a girl thing, I think," I replied lamely, not really knowing what was going on either.

The girls suddenly turned back as quick as they had turned around before. "So," Naminé continued, "are you in or not?"

"Sure," I replied.

Sora was just looking at Kairi. My little brother's crush had a slightly dejected look on her face.

"Okay," Sora said, still looking at Kairi.

"Let's get this over with," Kairi murmured.

Things were not looking good on the romantic front for my brother.