Chapter 5

Destiny intertwine's

A/N Hello and welcome to chapter five, sorry for the long wait guys, I hope you're still interested lol You won't be disappointed because this one's going to be extra long, I promise that the ending conclusion will be gripping.

DISCLAIMER:- I do not own Kingdom Hearts, but Chiyo is my character.

Chiyo had immediately given chase, immensely rushing at a pace that wasn't very likely to catch up to Sora's and Kairi's amazing 30 mile sprint. It was quite unatural for a fourteen year old to sprint so much for so long without her legs turning into mulch, although her ankles were burning and her skin was frying from the hot sun, she had to catch up and make a formal apology to the red headed teen to whom she had offended.

The brash, foolhardy Riku, who would usually nosedive into situations like these had actually been taking it in his stride, not really the one to bother about petty squabbles unless it concerned himself. the whole 'darting after three lunatics' seemed so pointless that if he were even to participate, it would just cramp his style.

Whitnessing Chiyo's soft solemn moans, he rose to concern. He watched with curiosity as she collapsed onto the floor, knees giving way from the burnout.

"Is he worth this much hassle?" His voice had crept up behind Chiyo, she never thought he would've caught up to her, not after how much dust she was leaving behind and seeing as he was walking--well--yeah.

As Chiyo collapsed onto the floor, defeated and slightly embarrassed about her current state, the poor bonehead blundered

"N-no j-just sniffing the floor! High fibre heh..heh?"

"Uh--" The onyx haired teen, bemused by her words coughed to clear the quiet tension then replied with a chuckle " The destiny Island heat, getting to ya huh? You look like you could use a brake."

The orange eyed teen tilted her head, being wary not to raise it too much as it was aching, in fact her whole muscles were in agony. However, she looked up to him with puppy dog eyes, the glistening sun mixing with her eyes to create pools of yellow. They looked positively glossy, but there was no way he was going to tell her that. His mind and priorities were set on a different girl.

"Bu-but, I have to catch up with the one you call Kairi, she must understand the situation, I wasn't trying to offend or steal her man."

Riku looked wide eyed at her, those eyes surprised him. They glowed so furiously in the warming sun that at the time, he almost fell for her. Those eyes were striking and gentle; beautiful eyes like that were very hard to come by, could this possibly mean she was from another world? Despite this discovery and his delayed reaction to help her, he complained that he had a meagre twitch and had helped her to her feet.

'This girl... '

He brushed it from his mind and relished the opportunity to converse with Sora's new, attractive-but-slightly-weird lady friend.

"'The one you call Kairi'? No wonder you're hanging around with that pinhead and why you don't have any real fr-nevermind" Riku knew he had just trodden on thin ice, whether or not Chiyo was going to respond in a hostile fashion was up to her, although she didn't look like the type to bitch. He was about to apologize until the ebony haired girl spoke first.

"The reason why..I don't belong to a group of friends, is because everyone has abandoned me, they think that I'm some sort of ...freak."

" What? Now why would anybody think that?" Riku was being sarcastic but Chiyo was never the one to embrace sarcasm. They started to walk along the path, Riku loosening his tie and holding onto Chiyo's school bag like a gentlemen would usually do in this situation.

"Well...

It's my eyes

My dad..His inventions...

Silly rumors from a superstitious ex-best friend."

"Tina?" he replied, skimming some of the mirky dust from his shoe that he had gathered.

"That's right, I had invited her round my house one day, she was begging to see 'the inventors daughters' house, saying things like:

'"You've been round my house hundreds of times, so why can't I come round yours?'

"'I bet you've got some mega cool things to show the class, I wanna tell everyone that I was the first person to go round your house'"

"The thing was, when she saw all of my dads inventions, she had a lapse of sanity and tried to use them all! Even pressing the 'do not touch' button, i mean who does that? Honestly! They had all malfunctioned- and then there was an accident. A gruesome..Accident.

Ever since then she's cursed what she couldn't understand, spreading horrible rumors about my dad and myself to reclaim her fallen status. She made it her duty to make me miserable, teasing me and taunting me in front of the class, the teacher too busy with his sudoku to notice how badly I was being bullied. The taunts ran deep:

'Oh look, here comes Frankenstein monster..Her eyes are proof enough that she's not natural.'

The rumors drove people away from me, even people who got close were immediately drawn away because of Tina's scorn. That was, until I met Sora...

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Sora's proposal

"Kairi! Kairi! Please! I'm sorry!" His last words hardly got through to her as his voice was thining, he needed to slow down or else he would loose his voice, however he was detirmined to catch her and calm her.

"Sora, thats twice you've let me down, Riku's always had to take care of me because you were never there, I guess I'll just have to depend on him from now on!" She replied spitefully, Kairi is an apprihensive girl by nature although she usually dosnt like to show it, she likes her friends beside her to give her that extra bit of confidence and support, Selphie is the perfect example, as she's usually the type to follow her around if she's not busy watching Tidus and Wakka's ballgames.

"Stop following me!" she sobbed, covering her hand over her mouth to dilute the tears.

"You can depend on me too! We're friends aren't we!?" he said pleadingly, the boy was getting desperate for her attention now, he would say anything to stop her, to allow himself just a few seconds to explain.

"Sometimes I wonder"

"Don't say that Kairi, you mean a lot too me!" He said in a soft sob, he hated Kairi getting upset, but what he didn't realize was why she was so upset, was it jealousy? rage? envy? Or was she just having a bad day and thought it'd be best to blame Sora?

Then, a flyer for the school dance had brushed passed his eye site, and it was that moment, instinctively, he had immediately spat out the words:

"PLEASE GO OUT WITH ME!"

Sora looked out for me in his own special way, he was moved to 9R after an incident involving a teachers sudden disappearance:

"Hey new kid, watch out for 'Scum' over there."

" Scum? Why?"

"Don't look at her! The girl will gauge your eyes out! She's a freak man, a total freak. She'll take you to her lab where she'll eat your brains"

"She has a lab? cool! I wouldn't mind seeing a lab. Anyway, if she eats brains... Then how come you guys are still here?"

He made me smile... '

" For the first time...In a long time, someone stood up for me." Chiyo sighed, satisfied with the completion of her short story, it left Riku slightly intrigued, now he knew something about her, and the reason for why she seemed so shy and pensive around--well. everything she came in contact with.

"That's Sora alright, always stickin his ore in, he can't 'help' but help others" He said as he sucked his teeth to show a bit of frustration, it seemed to peeve him that Sora was so naturally friendly whilst Riku was more of the hotheaded type.

"I suppose.." She replied, not fully agreeing with his tone, but she also seemed distant, almost swooning.

Immediately engaging her dazed position, he rested his hand on his chin as this was the sign that he was up to something mischievous "Guess I don't blame you for fallin for him, he is quite a hunk, huh?"

"Yeeaaahh" It was as if Chiyo's brain went abroad for the four seasons. The teen had no idea that he was making fun of her crush, that was until it struck her like lightening and her bottom lip suddenly started to tremble "--W-hat!? M-me! No-no! NO! We're friends, I mean, kind of friends, we haven't really talked properly but..Um..yeah! We're friends!"

"Whatever, I bet your just begging to ride him, heh!" He said cheekly, giving the breet root red teenager a little nudge just to make sure he hadn't verbally killed her.

Chiyo's ear's rang with disalusion, this boy was very outspoken and assertive, no wonder Sora thought that tampon's were monsters.

" I-I-I-I am NOT a woman of loose morals!!" Riku blew a raspberry her way which had only intensified her rage for the immature, immoral, older teen.

" 'Oh Sora! My mind and body are one, make love to me! ' " Riku twisting his voice to sound as smilar to Chiyo's as he could possibly make it without hearing his voice crack. By this time, the outraged and insulted girl was hot on his heels, slapping him playfully as he continued with his taunts.

"You come back here Riku! RIGHT...NOW! I'm going to make you eat those words! Y-y-y-you... meathead you! "

Chiyo began to give chase, her mind imploding about chasing after him and pummeling him down until he took those words back. Chiyo didn't mind herself being taunted at, but if it was of Sora, she couldn't help but to defend him...She owed it to him.

Secretly though, she never had so much fun.

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Sora's proposal 2

Kairi froze then...Her still body had abled Sora to catch up to her, his willingness to reach her had exhausted him, maybe it was his big shoes that weighed him down? It was when he saw her, so still like that, that he opened his mouth to speak; only when he did...It was all a jumble.

"I-I mean..T-to the dance...That is!--I-I-f you want too?" Was he making an excuse for that outburst? Or was it because the banner gave him the insentive to ask her to the dance?

"I'll..Think about it" Turning to face him now with a beaming smile which symbolized that she was thinking about it in a positive way, she giggled at his fatigued figure, he looked drained where as Kairi had hardly broke a sweat. With his famous grin, it made all of her worries melt and like him all over again, he was so irrisitbly sweet whenever he'd smile at her like that. Arm in arm now, Kairi pulled him up from his slouching posture.

"C'mon, you can take me home hehe. My gran will make you a nice hotchocolate"

Kairi's sudden change of heart was really weird from Sora's point of view, one minute she was sobbing and the next, fine!

'Girls..I'll never understand them'

"Well, we'll never catch up too them now." The green eyed boy yelled in agitation, he also wanted to catch up to Kairi and to ask her about the dance that was in a few days, followed by the up comming play that she had been auditioning for.

"W-what!? You were trying to catch up to Sora and Kairi this whole time?" Tired and crippled Chiyo waddled behind him, just about regaining her lost breath.

"Weren't you?" Riku stated calmly, hand on his hip whilst his other hand was used as a sun guard, observing the skyline from a top the hill like a lifeguard.

"Y-yes but- Oh dear, nevermind..."

"let's go then."

Puzzled, she replied "Go where?"

"To your house silly. It's natural for a gentlemen to escort a beautiful young maiden home." He said in a smarmy tone, sometime's his arrogance was beyond belief..That was Riku for you; the guy who lieks to tease but dosen't mean anything by it.

"Haha. You can tease me all you like, but I know full well you just want to see my dads inventions, come on then. Since you asked so Nicely!" The thought of home did make her feel slightly energized..But, what would father think? Bringing a stranger home? let alone a MALE stranger?

'Am I that transparent?' "Alright!" As they headed for the outskirts of town, they passed a dazed and dreary looking school teacher that was pre-occupied in searching for something, they were about to adress the situation when he bulldozed inbetween them and had chased after something that looked like a black looking pixie, a pixie with claws and yellow glowing eyes.

Chiyo had grabbed hold of the leader position, running after the senior and demanding Riku to follow despite not catching a glimpse of the creature "C'mon! he went round the corner into that allyway!"

"Well then, he won't go far...It's-" It was too late, Chiyo had already darted off into the allyway without Riku's consent or knowledge that the allyway was " A dead end!"

"Noah... WAY!" The teen had spotted something shocking, without reason or scientific explanation the creature had claimed some sort of glowing light before disapearing and so did the body of Mr Gile; the teacher they had been chasing. When Riku had arrived, Chiyo stood there in a spiral of confusion, when he clicked his fingers infront of her face, she reclaimed her composure.

"I recall...A glowing light...Then, they vanished." She said with still the same distant look, like she was still trying to find a varible explanation for the disapearence.

"There's no way he could've gone anywhere, it's solid rock!" From Riku's perspective, it all seemed quite impossible, however if it came from a different world, perhaps...

"Well...Maybe there's a trap door somewhere, or maybe,some,secret, base below. Or! Maybe there's a button!"

Chiyo felt around for any suspicious, oblongs or weird-pointy-James Bond styled levers that were just dieing to be fondled. Unfortunantly, she found none and Chiyo's expectations were disapointed by the lack of adventure on Destiny Island.

"Forget it" The boy groaned, itching the back of his ear "Better leave it to the police. did you see what he was after?"

"It was a creature--some sort of pigmi thing, with yellow, beady eyes!" She illistrated the beast through the modem of dance and weird, african styled hand waves, it was very entertaining and it wasn't really helping Riku's current humorless disposition.

Her graphic illistation of the pigmi was entertaining enough for him to generally chuckle his loudest "hahaha! Chiyo! Sometimes you remind me so much of Sora"

"Hehe, I do?" She scoffed, taking the two fingers out of her mouth that had been holding her lips wide apart.

"haha..Yeah, he does things like that. It always seems to make me laugh. Now c'mon, let's get you home young lady." Taking her hand, although slightly slimey from it being in her mouth, they managed to head towards the house upon the hill where Chiyo's dad resided.

Later that evening...

The place was very Gothic in nature, there were figures carved from bush and two fountains on the opposite side of one another, it was all very mysterious, like a secret garden only..not. It was so out in the open that he couldn't understand why people would try to steer clear of such an amazing place. The flowers fragence seemed to hit you in the face like a wave of sunshine, the smell was exciting, rousing..He wasn't really one for sniffing flowers but the way the petals took off against the current of the wind seemed so poetic, and how Chiyo dashed up along the coble steps toward the door seemed like a dance, everything was so peaceful and tranquil and he had almost lost track of time when he suddenly heard a loud explosion come from the inside of the house.

"Father!" In a hasty attempt to enter the house, Chiyo was unable to find her loving parent through the foliage and smoke.

suddenly, bounding out of the fog was a man ranging inbetween his 40's-50's, it was hard to verify his age due to the fact he hardly had a wrinkle or crease on him. With thick glasses and a doctor's trench coat he seemed to be supporting the mad scientist look and with great pride too.

"Yu!Vlad! Vlad the inventor is my name, inventing things is my game, well that's obvious isn't it? Nuaaaooo! creating a nuro magnetic energy transverter for my underwear has did my marrige a world of gwood!Yu!"

The older male cried, he seemed to have hit his head pretty hard to be spouting nonsence so freely. The silver heard teen brushed his bangs back and made a non hostile attempt to make contact with the man 'This is WAY out of my comfort zone' he gulped.

"Uhh Riku, nice to meet you sir."'what a nut case' he mentally spouted.

He held out his hand for a formal greeting, only for his hand to be spat on then gripped tightly in the mans oily hands.

"That's how we greet peppo's in this house Yu!"

The look on Riku's face as he felt the super loogie inbetween his fingers was enough to send Chiyo into a laughing coma "hahaha! Dad he's a friend from school, so be nice."

"I'm always nice sunny Yu! When am I not nice? Accept throwing your cat on a surfboard and trying to find out if he could swim or not Yu!"

Chiyo lightly whispered to Riku so that only the two of them could converse with one another. "It's alright, it should wear off in a bit, he usually gets like that after he explodes." Whipping the muck from his hand, Riku replied "You mean he ALWAYS does this?" Riku thought Chiyo's father would be someone dapar and respectable with refined taste in clothing..But not this kook! Who tood before him doing hand stands and sipping invisible tea.

"Yeah!" She giggled "Isn't it great!? My dads a genious, if only he wasn't being constantly ridiculed...And also..He always seems constantly pre-occupied, especially since mum died." Riku shared a look of concern as he watched Chiyo embrace her father, suddenly he felt bad for calling her father such names...But only a little.

The ebony haired girl thought very highly of her father, and had one day dreamed about following in his footsteps although her father thought that this type of thinking would conflict with her school work, he always told her to have more than one dream, just incase.

With her fathers regained poise, he formally introduced himself with a bright smile and a humble tone "My name is Vlad young man, and I am very pleased to meet you, it's very stimulating to see Chiyo bring home an actual person. And such a strapping young man you are." He chuckled which only seemed to embarrass Chiyo "Umm dear daughter, I hope this young man wasn't subjected to me sniffing his clothes was he?"

"hehe, no dad it's alright, you behaved yourself this time." she said earnestly

He nodded and scruffed up her hair "Well seeing as it's dark out, Master Riku should stay the night. It would be a shame if you got mugged."

"GEH!?" Chiyo suddenly nudged her dad, which indicated she didn't like the idea "F-father!" she said in a low, gruff tone "D-dont you think that's a bit..Sudden?"

The winded dad rubbed his sore belly as he never managed to gather the hint "Oh nonsence, he looks trusting enough not to try anything with you Chiyo."

"Thats not what I meant" She whined, she wasn't really looking forward to Riku's morning breath the next day. She had an inkling that it would smell of rotten eggs. Feeling as though she wasn't going to win this battle and by whitnessing Riku's enormous grin, she gave into her dads demands.

"Daughter of mine, this is the first person let alone; boyfriend, you've brought home since Tira-Tina, but she wasn't a man..He can stay here for as long as he likes." The man nodded.

"Hear that? It's okay. C'mon then girlfriend of mine, show me around." He said with an overconfident smile, his lips seemed flitatious but she always thought it was to intimidate her.

"I'm not you're!- Oh forget it, alright then hotshot, i'll show you to the spare room." It agitated her yet made her surprisingly flustered at the same time, she guessed it was because she wasn't used to this much male attention, she hardly thought she was flirting material...maybe he did it to annoy her? Must be the hormones.

'Finally, she's growing a backbone.'

"Nonsence Chiyo, he can sleep in your room, besides the spare room has been turned into the Gummie room now, seeing as we havent had guests for awhile now Nyuk nyuk."

"Wow my lucky day, I get to score with an inventors daughter." He folded his arms and tantilized the girl more by raising his eyebrows.

"Haha! because I'm an inventor and she's my-haha! Very whitty master Riku" Vlad chuckled innocently not being able to spot his daughters veins bulge.

Oh he was so pushing it, and what was worse was her dad was joining in! Oh cruel fate! After the unpleasent conversation that happened a few hours ago, Chiyo escorted him upstairs into the sleeping quaters where she had layed out a futon for Riku to sleep on. Whilst she was busy brushing her teeth and generally loosening up for bed, Riku found it in his best interest to snoop around and find any info out about Chiyo. Her room was quite big, the average size of a bed room, and it wasn't all pink and girly as he was dreading it would be, it was red with white hawaiian patterns... Kind of cool.

To his dismay, he found nothing, only photographs and a keychain of a paopu fruit. It was then that he 'accidently' opened the wardrobe and found something that had drawn him to grasp it and pull it off the clothing rack.

"hey it's her end of school year shirt, where everybody signs your shirt and then you count how many you get afterwards..Let's see."

He flipped the shirt both ways, he was disapointed to see her shirt was bare. It unerved him to find no one had signed it, even the nerds would usually get at least five scribbles but she had nothing, they must've really singled her out when she was little.

"She has...no..nothing..Not one signitu- Wait...what's this?" It was then that he spotted on the back of her shirt in thick black marker, two words-no initials. He was appalled by his lack at seeing the obvious, the words stood out like a sore thumb.

"S...O? 'S.O'? Who's 'So?' weird."The emeraled eyed teen couldn't make the connection and so, he never gave it any deep thought.

Shoving the shirt back into the wardrobe without a second thought, he awaited Chiyo under the duvets of his matress.

As she dived onto her bed like a whale shark, the silver haired teen could feel the floor vibrate from the impact, allowing him to start up a conversation.

He cleared his throat before adressing her, seeing as he did catch a glimpse of her pink jammies right before she piledrived onto her bed; the situation made him feel uneasy as he had to admit she looked quite cute in her pink pajamas.

"You know Chiyo, your house rocks. And your dad's pretty cool too." he said, resting his hands under his head with his eyes focused on the ceiling.

"T-thanks Riku. Your the first person to think so. I still thought we should have looked for the teacher."

"Nah" he scoffed "What could've you done? It was best that I got you home in one piece rather than ten pieces."

"H-hey there mister! I could've done plenty, I'm not so helpless as you might think" She replied with a little more bite.

"Whatever, all I know is, girls freakout and worry about their make-up rather than getting down with the boys."

"Oh please, like you can see past those muscles of yours. I'll show you tommorow, what we girls can really do. And I promise you, you WONT be disapointed."

Riku could only chuckle from her sharp come back, he was a little interested and also apprehensive in what she could do, after all... He knew that this girl was definantly full of suprises. "But for what it's worth..You have pretty eyes"

"...Thank..you..Riku."

"Night Chiyo."

A/N Wtf?! SORA ASKING KAIRI OUT?! RIKU FLIRTING WITH CHIYO!? Crazy huh? And why the heck does Vlad the inventor look so good for his age? These are some turn of events huh folks? The mystery unfolds in the next installment of Calm before the storm!