It's kind of hard to believe but I started this way back when I was 15. I'm 19 now. Can you believe that? It's crazy. It was pretty much around the same time I started editing this and revamping it and every other word that means "fix" to describe my activities for the past month.

This has honestly been fun for me else than trying to shyly find people to proofread. All my friends have gotten busy and are now procrastinators and all my shonen-ai loving friends have disappeared...

it's just totally awesome.

In this chapter I decided to put all of the dinner gathering part in this chapter so I took part of the last original chapter and put it in this one. I think it fits a bit better, personally. I rewrote A LOT of this chapter, though.

Please enjoy.
Disclaimer: If I owned Kingdom Hearts it wouldn't be Kingdom Hearts anymore with numourus changes and other silly things. I don't own Kingdom Hearts or its characters.

Please review and comment. Anything is accepted except for hypocritical/biased/dumb flaming over the pairing.

chaos

Two extremely bored teens sat next to each other, tapping their fingers on the arm of the expensive red love seat. An ironic name for the two of them, sitting in the over sized chair.

Their fathers were both talking about various dull things like politics, policies, news, cars. Kairi looked anxious and nearly pushed herself up to go to the kitchen to check on the food.

The only problem was, however, that she had done this maybe fourteen times already in the past twenty minutes. This would be the fifteenth and her father was starting to question her. The family had just hired a new maid to help around in the kitchen, so he was confused as to why she'd want to go in and help in the first place.

Kairi wondered what he would say to her actual reason and started daydreaming.

Sora looked away from her and his father waving his arms, telling an elaborate story from the weekend before.

His mother and Kairi's were chatting about the sort of things you'd expect two middle-aged married women to talk about. Sora heard the word marriage and prayed it was about their own. The boy's hunger and boredom muted them out. He only wanted to eat the food, talk a little, and go home so he could get some sleep.

Sora sighed quietly and put his hands behind his head before relaxing onto the soft red loveseat. He stared intently at the fixtures of the room.

The room was a sort of gold yellow that contrasted with the bright red in the room mixed in. The red spots included the sofa and chairs everyone was sitting in and a soft looking rug underneath the gold-looking coffee table. Sora was resisting the urge to really relax and put his feet up on the table but he was pretty sure at least five people would hit him.

A painting hung on the wall next to the entrance to the kitchen. Two bored looking cherubs rested while looking at the sky.

While he was blanking out, he felt a soft pat on his spiked hair and noticed Kairi's father was standing next to the boy, looking at Sora with a smile that curved his mustache with it. The hand retreated and her father moved a chair to face Sora and Kairi. He had no visible neck that defined his round head from his matching body which had a green suit wrapped around it. This reminded Sora of a pear with a mustache. Sora uncontrollably smiled.

"How are you, my boy?" Kairi's father asked in a booming voice.

Sora didn't know if the man was being sincere or not but said, "Fine," anyway.

"That's wonderful. Did the date go well? I hope it wasn't too expensive."

Although Sora was sure that what the man said wasn't meant to offend anyone, it still depressed him slightly. One thought lingered in his mind: Kairi's family felt sorry for his.

Sora tried to keep thinking about how the man looked like a giant pear in shoes and a pink head and managed to make a believable smile.

"It was great, Mr. Hanaita. (1) We had a great time."

As the man smiled, a buzzing noise came from the kitchen. Kairi got up and ran to the kitchen, leaving an awkward silence in the room after the buzzing stopped. After a few long minutes, her voice came from the kitchen yelling, "Dinner's ready!"

This couldn't be normal. It wasn't, and should never even be considered a standard dinner between two families.

The room's decor matched the living room with pleasent shades of gold and red. Set on the dining table were plates full of food including lobster and turkey. Bowls of peas and corn sat side by side near the turkey. All the dishes looked more expensive and were more elaborate than the table they were placed on. It was all a calming mixture of things for the adults as they chatted away about politics and other mindless things.

well… it looked normal.

But to Sora, the air had a certain thick, awkward feel to it, and he just wanted to get out of there. He knew that, somehow, this night was going to cause utter chaos to creep into his life like snake's venom.

maybe that feeling he had that morning was right.

He yawned quietly and unnoticed, and shifted his attention to his right to see Kairi flick a tiny piece of turkey meat to her cat underneath the table. The tan cat swished its tail back and forth as it sat on top of Kairi's feet. The cat's watching yellow eyes stared at Kairi's hand, waiting for it to give him more food. The large cat was refusing to get off until it was "properly" fed.

Kairi began cutting her large slice of turkey into many tinier pieces and began dividing those up in halves.

She gave Sora a sideways glance and explained, "I'm not hungry."

"Well, I am," Sora gave a full teasing frown, and put a large spoonful of peas in his mouth. "It's your fault for eating all that junk food at my house. I don't blame you, fatty." Sora grinned.

Trying to stay more quieter than the adults' voices, she angrily replied, "You always are, you twig! You're so rude."

The girl jabbed her friend in his side with her elbow.

"You're just jealous," he teased, swallowing his peas.

"Oh, yes, I'm so jealous of you Sora that I'm about to start crying."

Sora laughed at this and looked down at his plate. He scooped up another spoonful of peas, but as he got the peas in his mouth he heard his mother's voice from across the table, trying to get his attention.

"Sora," she said in a kind but dignified voice. She looked a bit concerned and confused, waiting for her son's response.

"Mmph?" Sora replied and held up his finger to signal her to wait, still chewing his peas. Didn't she teach him to not talk with his mouth full anyway? He started to chew faster and swallowed sharply, regretting that soon after, nearly choking on a pea.

While he coughed and hit his chest with a closed fist, his mother waited patiently for his actual reply.

He coughed and asked, "What is it, mom?"

"Well, um," she paused and looked a bit embarassed, "Where did you get that outfit? I've been trying to remember where I got it but..." She began trailing off and mumbled random store names, trying to spark her memory.

Sora, both confused and curious about what his mom was talking about, looked down at his outfit. It was the outfit Riku put together for him for the date. He knew the real reason he didn't want to take them off, but he decided to tell his parents at least some of the truth in the story.

"Riku gave it to me," said Sora, and he nervously went back to turning his peas into a mountain of green orbs, trying to avoid eye contact with his mother's matching blue eyes.

"Why'd 'e do dat?" his father slurridly asked in a confused husky voice. Sora figured his dad had a couple glasses of wine already.

"A late birthday gift, maybe? Oh, wait, he got me that…" Sora trailed off, realizing he made a mistake,

"Maybe he wanted me to look nice for me and Kairi's two year anniversary date… Besides, he's my friend, right? It isn't that big of a deal."

Sora had an issue saying "anniversary" being in his kind of relationship.

Kairi unconsciously added, "Sora, don't say anniversary," but stopped talking and realized what she said. She put a piece of turkey in her mouth to give her a moment to think about what she should say next. Mid-chewing, she found something reasonable to say and went with it, "It makes it sound like we're married. And you know I don't care what you look like." The girl ignored her mother's twitches about her speaking while food was in her mouth.

"Hehe, thanks Kairi," Sora said with a bright smile.

Kairi's mother, a woman about as stout as her husband, stopped twitching immediately and cooed at the sweetness of the two teenager's relationship, finding it absolutely adorable. She then turned to Sora's mother and spoke of how similar the situation was like one of her dumb soap operas they watched together in high school.

"Strange boy, that Riku," Mr. Hanaita stated, stroking his thick mustache.

Sora's ears perked up like a hound in the middle of chewing. He gave an audible, "Hm?" and looked up from his plate at the man.

"Oh, just thinking out loud, my boy."

"'e don' mean nothin' by it son," his father assured before tearing his teeth into a turkey leg.

Kairi's voice interrupted Sora's thoughts when she said, "Sora, you haven't even touched your lobster yet! It took me forever to cook that!"

The young brunette looked down at his plate and saw the bright red lobster on his plate. He was ignoring it still even though he specifically chose that over turkey out of fear. Sora's never actually had lobster before, let alone seen one. But, after all he's heard about how amazing the island's lobster apparently is, he decided to finally see what all the fuss was about.

He picked it up with one hand and poked at it a bit, studying its hard skin and texture. Then, he bit it sharply, only causing pain to shoot through his jaw and a slight whimper to escape his lips.

"You have to get rid of the skin first," his friend silently hinted before adding, "Dummy."

"Well, I know that now, don't I?" he snapped back, quiet as he possibly could. Luckily, the adults were talking about taxes and stupid boring things again anyway.

Sora sighed and picked up the unused silver steak knife near his plate. He held down the small red creature with two of his fingers and began to saw harshly at the rough skin, shaking the table a bit with his action. Despite his efforts, however, there was barely a scratch after he stopped.

Now, the lobster had been dead for a couple hours now and hasn't seen much of a Sora in its life, as well. However, it seemed to be toying with Sora. This is what the boy was thinking at the time, at least. In his frustration, he bit even harder this time. All that happened was more pain in his jaw and him to be more agitated. Kairi watched all of this happen with a grin on her face, about to laugh.

"Ooh," Mrs. Hanaita cooed again at Sora's crazy antics. She leaned over to his mother and continued a bit more quietly, "He's just so adorable, Juno!" (2)

Sora, still hearing what she had said, gave up on the lobster and crossed his arms. Unconciously, he pouted as if he became ten years younger. His right eye began to twitch a tiny bit after all of the women broke into a fit of laughter. He had a sudden urge to start sawing that lobster again.

"Kairi, sweetie," Juno said with a lot more control than her friend had at the moment, "could you help my son with his food?"

The red haired girl stopped laughing and froze. She quietly said, "I knew I forgot something!" and she ran off into the kitchen, making her cat jump straight up from fright. Even though it ended up lightly hitting its head on the table, Sora couldn't help but chuckle a bit.

The girl returned to Sora's side with lobster crackers in her hand and began to quickly break off the skin of the lobster. (3) Kairi was quite oblivious to the fact that her chest was practically bouncing in front of Sora's face while she worked and paid it no mind.

Frankly, Sora wasn't paying any attention to it, either. He was too embarassed and tired to notice.

He put his elbow on the table and rested his chin in his palm. Sora closed his eyes and tried to relax for a while. However, as soon as he thought there was enough silence in the room to calm his nerves, a loud crashing sound of glass breaking and hitting the hardwood flooring. Mixing with the shrieks of the women in the room, it burst Sora right out of his bubble.

Sora tried to see through the dust that was slowly settling and finally saw the source of the chaos. Behind chaos, stood perfection; Riku stood before the broken glass and wood that was once a door. His fist was raised and bleeding, ready to take on anyone and anything that got in his way.

Riku was looking in Sora's direction but looking straight at Kairi who was now frozen in her tracks to match everyone else in the room. Everyone had a strange look of confusion on their face and were gaping at the bleeding boy.

Suddenly, Riku seemed to flare up, his hair standing up a bit more than usual, his eyes shaking from anger making them look like pure green orbs.

He yelled out, "What are you doing to my Sora?" (4)

Everyone but Sora fled the room at these words and he sat there still blushing at the last words of Riku's threat thinking, He called me his… I… I could live with that…

The silver haired prince walked elegantly to Sora's side and leaned towards the younger boy's face while holding the boy's cheek in his hand. He whispered softly, "Sora… I…"

The brown-haired teen choked out, "Ri—."

"Sora…" Riku said inches from Sora's lips. Their distance was shortening, slowly but surely.

"SORA!" Kairi yelled as she hit Sora squarely on the back of the head, "Snap out of it! Were you dreaming again?"

"Ow… Huh?" the brunette looked around frantically, quickly noticing that Riku was nowhere to be seen and the door was still standing, intact.

"Are you okay, Sora?" his mother asked worriedly.

"Huh? Yeah, why?" Sora brought his half full glass of water and ice cubes to his lips to clear his mind from that weird daydream.Dumb daydreams…

"You look like you have a fever, dear," Mrs. Hanaita stated.

Kairi explained to Sora, trying not to laugh, "Your face is all red. You look like a cherry with hair!"

Sora blushed even more at her statement and Kairi laughed to the point of being breathless. He tried to come up with an excuse, "It must be that cold weather we've been having. Isn't it weird?" he asked in an awkward laugh and rubbed the back of his head, desperately trying to get the eyes off of him.

Kairi's father coughed to clear his throat and to get everyone's attention. This made Sora almost ecstatic now that the heads were turning away.

The man muttered thoughtfully, "I think I've just figured something out," he looked towards the two teens and said, "You both must think you're pretty sly keeping this from us."

"What?"

author rant time

Oh dear lord I'm so sorry for leaving it on a horrible cliffhanger such as this. I completely forgot how terrible I was...

(was? you still are.)

And oh, if only I still had my rough draft of the next chapter. I'm probably going to go out on a different direction than what I wanted to do but still stay close to what I wanted to do... So many possibilities.

Old thank yous that deserve to still be here: Sryn-chan for advertising for me, AdventureAddict for thinking of the Absolute Boyfriend parody scene, Time, Erika and everyone else who helped me proofread before. AdventureAddict as well because I still remember bugging the livin' hell out of her at school to proofread even though I only changed like four things each time.

Oh, and to continue advertising for Sryn-chan, it's been forever, but go read "Don't get us caught!" by her.

New thank yous:
My new current proofreaders and YOU, the readers. I love you all.

Please give reviews, comments, say hi. I don't really care. I like attention, though.

Notes/ramble time:

(1) I changed it from the original Hanatsu to Hanaita. The original name I remember thinking like Hana for "flower" and "tsu" from the beginning of tsuki which means "moon" to mean something like moon flower, but... Japanese doesn't really work that way so eh. A kanji read as "tsuu" or "ita", though, can mean pain. Flower that causes harm? I'm so bullshitty at being weeaboo. It's pretty cool. (not really.) But yeah, that name's pretty relevant for Kairi's parents, huh? In Japanese it'd look like this 花痛. So Kairi's name written in Japanese would be 花痛 カイリ if you put her family name first and her... I'm going to shut up.

(2) I imagine the table as Kairi and Sora sitting next to each other on one side of the table, Kairi's father at the head of the table across from his wife, Sora's father sitting across from Sora, his mother on the corner next to Kairi's. I changed it up a bit to make more sense. If I need a diagram I'll kill someone. Basically, all three of the guys are at one end of the table, women on the other. Make sense?

As for Sora's mom's name, there wasn't really any real reason why I chose it. Just sort of came out. It had nothing to do with the movie that wasn't out yet at the time. I just wanted to show that the mothers were close.

(3) What are these things called? I still don't really know the fancy word for them else than those things that crack the other things open.

(4) I don't own Absolute Boyfriend. This was only a parody thought up by AdventureAddict.

i hope you enjoyed this chapter. please leave a review…

And please be patient for the next chapter. This is where I start to go off of new ideas and what I can remember writing in the past before I lost my pages. I already have some of the juicy stuff written so it shouldn't be too long. But please, be patient. This is going to be hard for me since I've never written something like this. I will say, though, it is going well.