R&R

Ven stayed there next to Kair for awhile, just talking with her till her grandmother would come. Though she did most of the talking while Ven just sat next to her and listened…and listened…and listened. As rude as it might be Ven was actually considering falling asleep and the expression on his face was screaming that as loud as it could.

But Kairi didn't see it, being that she was a little kid, so just keep talking about her short life, her grandmother, and the stories she's read. Ven's head was slowly leaning forward with his eyes following his lead. For a brief second he was completely asleep, until someone stormed in, slamming the door open, as they yelled out

"WHERE IS SHE?" a elderly woman said in a panicked tone making Ven immediately jump up and shake his head

"TERRA I SWEAR I DIDN'T DO IT!" Ven yelled out as he curled into a protective ball. Everyone stared at him like he was crazy. When he realized that this wasn't the castle he slowly shifted out of his ball pose then looked around at all the people starring at him. His face was beat red with embarrassment as he rubbed the back of his head and chuckled

"Who is that?" the old woman asked as she walked toward him and found the girl she was looking for behind him, wide awake and smiling at her.

"He's Ventus, he brought Kairi hear when she got hurt" Teal said as the old lady immediately shifted her view from Kairi to Ventus who just waved like an idiot. That caused the woman to chuckle a little while she showed a small smile of gratitude

"Thank you for helping my granddaughter Ventus" she said in happy sincere voice as Ventus grinned

"It was nothing really; I just did what any good person would've done". He said as he slumped back and rested the back of his head on his hands. The pose that Ventus was making made Kairi giggle a little as her grandmother sat down at the foot of her bed and looked at her closely to see if she was completely ok. Kairi looked over to her grandmother and noticed she was starring at her, so Kairi got close to her grandmother in responce and starred into her eyes thinking it was a starring contest. It only took a couple seconds before her grandmother caught and toke on her challenge.

Ven tilted his head as he tried to figure out what they were doing, after about 2 minutes of starring Ventus got bored and started walking behind Kairi's grandmother making sure she didn't assume anything. To be honest it wasn't like she was going to move her eyes away from her granddaughter anyways, but Ven snuck behind her anyway. He was holding back a chuckle as he slowly appeared behind her into to Kairi's view, which she didn't break to long from grandma. Then he put his index fingers in his mouth and stretched it out real wide and stuck out his tongue, making Kairi look at him weirdly as he went

"La lalalaala" Ventus mumbled through his mouth as he wiggled his tongue out, Kairi couldn't help but laugh at Ven uncontrollably. A grin went across her grandma's face as two seconds into her laughter she stopped then glared at Ven, realizing she had lost

"Hey!" she said in a angry mixed with disappointed tone. Ven was just laughing as he said

"I got you!" he said as Kairi put on a playfull evil grin on her face and jumped off her bed into Ven causing him to fall over onto the floor. He began to playfully wrestle with her as she fought back. What he didn't notice when he fell was that the card that his master gave him fell out of his pocket and slid over toward Teal. When he let her pin him, Kairi began to torture him in the best way a 4 year could think of.

"TICKLE FIGHT!" she began to franticly poke her fingers all around Ventus but mostly his sides as he began to uncontrollably laugh and squirm around to try and escape her torture, having flash backs to times Aqua did this to him.

Teal began to laugh as she watched Ven being tortured. Then she noticed something flip off her foot when she moved a little in her seat. She looked to the ground then leaned in to investigate it. What she found was a plastic card that she turned over and nearly jumped out of her seat when she saw it, it was a silver credit card with Ventus's name on it. She was so shocked because she had only heard of these cards, you could only have them if you were so rich that wasn't even funny.

Ven was still being tortured as he started to retaliate back by tickling her.

"NO STOP IT hahahha…" Kairi yelled out as she fell into a flurry of tickling fingers. Teal quickly looked up from the card toward Ventus

'How could he be rich enough to have this?' she thought, questioning it because she assumed most rich people were snobbish and intelligent. But Ven to her wasn't any of those things, he was pretty humble and nice. While Ven was in the middle of his tickle fight, losing to Kairi, she just asked him flat out

"Hey Ven!" she said as she waved the card back in forth in the air "is this yours?" she asked as Ven looked up at it and shook his head.

"Yeah it is…" he said as he got Kairi off him then walked over to Teal and took it. "…My master gave me this and told me to buy gifts for my friends. But to be honest I have no idea why he didn't give me any money and only gave me this" well that answered Teals question as to how he got that. She also was trying to hold back a chuckle, he had to be pretty dim if he didn't know how to use a credit card or even not know what one is. She took a short breath to push back her laughter then explained

"Ok… if you want to get gifts for your friends you might want to do that right now because all shops are closing" she said while pointing outside toward the setting sun. Ven gasped and was ready to freak out before Teal put her hand to tell him to hold his horses

"Now listen, all you have to do is just take your card into the shops, find something for your friends, then show the shop keep your card then you'll be able to take those things home with you" Ven raised a eyebrow as he looked at the card

"That's it?" he asked feeling stupid that he didn't figure that out sooner. Teal just nodded her head slowly so he could understand clearly. Mentally Ven was slapping himself back and forth across the face, till Teal leaned up and poked him.

"You better run if you want to get anything good" Ven quickly shook out of his mental hysteria and nodded quickly. He ran toward the door and before he left, quickly turned around and waved good bye to the three

"It was very nice to meet you all" he said happily as Teal and Kairi's grandma smiled to say bye. Kairi actually waved back with a big grin on her face, Ven grinned back and nodded to say bye to them one last time then stormed out the place. After he left Kairi realized something, Ven reminded her of someone she had met in her dreams. A young boy about her age with brown spiky hair and sea blue eyes. She kept a small grin for awhile after he left and thought one thing

'Bye Sora'

Ven was rushing around town, zipping in one shop to another. Without any thought he simply grabbed the first thing he saw in a store and ran to the next. For Terra he got some kind of handheld gadget that looked cool, for Aqua he wasn't completely sure what he got her and didn't waste any time checking, and lastly for the guests they were expecting he grabbed some things from a fireworks shop in town to give them a cool show on Christmas day and possibly new years if they were staying that long.

It was nearly the end of the day as the last glimpses of light shimmered off the horizon, the shops were all starting to close up and shut off their lights as one blond haired boy rushed through the streets toward the only store that didn't show any signs of closing as soon as the others. He quickly zoomed into the shop and stopped to try and catch his breath as he took in air relentlessly. A guy near the front of the store was starring at Ven as he caught his breath.

"Woah take it easy man" he said trying to urge him not to suck in so much air at once. Ven took one last big breath to calm himself down then looked around the shop, all around him was just couches and big comfy chairs. He thought that it was kinda stupid that he ran in here, there was no way he could drag a couch or a chair back to the castle and even if he got it there he couldn't hide it in his small room. Though he did see this one black chair that had the word customizable stickered on it. The shop keep looked over at the chair with a grin on his face then put his arm on Ven's shoulders and pointed towards the chair he was eyeballing.

"Yeah that's a 'beaut right there, she's top of line with massaging mechanisms and a mini fridge on the side with a built in 12 inch satellite tv on the right arm rest" what the keep said did sound cool but it also sounded heavy. Then Ven took his arm off his shoulders then started heading for the door

"Sorry, but I don't think I can lift that all the way home"

"Wa-wa-wait wait!" he said making him stop as he walked over to the chair and pressed a button next to the mini fridge. Then in a puff of smoke it shrunk down to the size of a small black cube with a blue square on top of it. Ven quickly ran over and picked up the cube, it was very light weight and easy to carry. He couldn't wrap his mind around how it did that as the shop keep had a big grin across his face from his now recent sale. Ven quickly handed him the card and bought the chair then stormed out the door with it in his hand.

He looked to the sky and brought his hand up and was about to slam it on his left shoulder to summon his armor. But due to him not paying attention to where he was going he slipped his foot in a hole and fell to the ground. Causing him to release his grip on the cube in his hand, causing it to roll forward.

He lay there for about fifteen seconds to accept the pain he had just recieved then slowly picked himself up. When he was half way up he saw a familiar person in armor picking up the cube.

"Aqua?" he said to himself as she summoned her keyblade glider. Ven quickly got on his feet and reached out his hand

"WAIT AQUA!" he yelled out but she didn't hear him as she zoomed off into space. Ven stood there for five seconds looking at her fly off before he slammed his hand on his left shoulder summoning his armor and glider. He quickly hoped on and zoomed off, trying to catch up to Aqua.

Now all the key pieces were either at the castle or heading to it. Seems like one interesting Christmas will soon be going on