Heyo! Starlight here! I am so so sorry for the delay! I had schoolwork and insane things to handle, but I am officially good and ready to do this. Hopefully, these will be posted no later than a month apart, but I might get them done before then hopefully. Who knows?
The first official day of their fourth year together. Not much had really changed with the group. They did get some new people added into their own group though. Ventus introduced them to his twin brother Roxas. Roxas brought in his own friend Lea. Sora introduced them to his older brother Vanitas, who was a year ahead of him, and his little sister Xion, who was now starting her second year at Hogwarts. Kairi introduced them to her younger sister Namine, who was starting her second year as well. Everyone ultimately became pretty great friends with each other and got along for the most part. Riku and Roxas had their rough moments of arguing, but they haven't killed each other just yet. They have all really been there for each other through a lot of things. When people were rude to Kairi simply because she is muggle-born, they were all there to help her through it. When someone was bullying Namine and taking her sketches, they were there to put an end to it easily. All of them have become their own family at Hogwarts and outside of it since they would visit each other during summer. They love and care for each other while making sure the others are protected and happy.
Aqua, Terra, Ventus, Sora, Riku, and Kairi almost always hung out with each other actually. They would sit around the courtyard and just joke with each other most of the time. Sora would try to make puns and jokes which only Terra would truly fine funny. Aqua would mainly laugh to help Sora feel better though. Aqua and Kairi had become amazing friends and had girl talk at least once a day in the common room. They mainly talked about different things that happened during the day and just get things out. Sora and Ventus had started having weekly 'Who Could Eat The Most Without Hurting' challenges. They almost never were able to decide a winner. Terra normally was the one that tried to keep them out of trouble though, not wanting his friends to risk getting hurt mainly. There was always something that happened to get someone into trouble though in which the others would come and help.
Roxas, Lea, Namine, Xion, and Vanitas hang out a lot on their own as well. Roxas, Lea, and Xion all actually love eating ice cream together while Namine tells them how bad it is for them to eat so much ice cream. Vanitas would try to find cinnamon ice cream though while mainly hanging out with Roxas out of everyone.
All of them together made their own family at Hogwarts. Terra, Vanitas, Lea, Roxas, and Riku mainly would watch out for and protect the others. Sora, Ventus, and Aqua would find ways to make people smile. Kairi, Namine, and Xion were always there to help the others get out any thoughts or help them get through any issues they might be dealing with.
Currently, Sora was just studying in the Gryffindor common room with Kairi, Aqua, and Roxas. They were going to meet up with the others later, but Aqua was helping the three of them with their studies. Specifically the Charms class since Aqua was definitely the best at it. "That's how you do it?" Kairi asked Aqua curiously.
Aqua nodded after she had thought of . "Yeah. Just keep that focus, and you'll be just fine, Kai." She smiled at Kairi, who happily returned it.
Unlike Roxas and Sora, Kairi loved learning this stuff. They guessed it was her being muggle-born and a lot more interested in the magic world rather than Sora and Roxas. Sora and Roxas both being from pure blood families did have something to do with them being used to the magic world. It didn't take away from how amazing it was to be in Hogwarts learning magic themselves, but they weren't as intrigued as Kairi was.
"Hey, guys!" Yuffie greeted as she walked closer to them. Yuffie was Sora's friend mainly since Sora was practically friends with almost everyone. Almost.
"Hey, Yuffie." Sora waved with that familiar grin of his. Kairi and Aqua looked at Yuffie with a smile while Roxas looked at her.
"You guys do know the others are waiting outside, right?" Yuffie smiled.
"They're out there?" Roxas blinked a few times in confusion. Were the others just waiting outside the common room?
"No, I mean they're outside. You know, outside the castle?" Yuffie laughed a little.
Roxas nodded. "Well, any excuse to stop the studying early. I'm gonna go see Vanitas and Lea."
"Yeah, it would be nice to have a break and go see the others." Sora nodded in agreement, looking at Aqua and Kairi with a hopeful smile. He wanted to go see Riku!
Kairi smiled. "Yeah. It'd be fun." She looked at Aqua as she kept the smile. It would definitely be fun to mess with Ventus and Riku.
Aqua nodded with a small smile. "Then, let's not keep them waiting too much longer. Thank you, Yuffie."
"No problem." Yuffie waved to the four of them before going up the stairs to the dormitories.
Sora got up, pulling Kairi with him happily. "Let's go!" He smiled as he started walking with Kairi, Aqua and Roxas following. "I wonder how long they've been waiting for us." He hummed in thought.
"Who knows? Probably just been goofing off while they waited." Roxas chuckled.
"Most likely. Especially Ven and Lea." Kairi laughed a bit as they left the common room and began heading down the stairs.
Aqua nodded. "I'd have to agree on that. Those two are always getting into some craziness." She smiled though. She didn't mind their crazy tendencies. After all, they all normally ended up in the crazy together. It made things interesting. Several times, they've gotten caught up in helping Lea with pranks. Well, the others would. Most of the girls and sometimes Terra would normally just watch. Kairi normally helped all the time since Ventus would help.
Once they made their way outside, they all actually started laughing. Ventus and Lea were trying to wrestle. Lea had sat on Ventus' stomach for a second before the blonde had pushed him off. They literally just continued on this thing. The two were not looking that great since both seemed tired while neither looked ready to give up anytime soon. That was until the two looked over and saw the group. Both of their eyes lit up with excitement. For two different reasons. Both reasons being a person in the group though.
"Having fun, guys?" Kairi asked through her small laughs. She found this pretty hilarious honestly. Ventus and Lea wrestling as a whole is funny to her because the two almost never find out who would win before just stopping to take a nap or eat.
Ventus and Lea immediately got up and just smiled at the group. "Yeah! Even more now that you guys are here though." Ventus just grinned at them.
"So sweet." Kairi chuckled, not able to stop herself from thinking about how Ventus looked kinda cute when he smiled like that.
Sora just smiled at them before going over to Riku and attacking him with a hug. "Hey, Ku!" He was definitely glad to see Riku. Now, he could get hugs galore and not have any protests! Well, he could do that with someone like Ventus or especially Terra as well, but Riku was a great hugger even if he didn't know it.
Riku looked at Sora with a smile, kinda having expected that. Sora is the hugger after all. It never bothered Riku though. "Hey, Sor."
"What are you doing?" Sora asked curiously, looking at the book Riku had.
"I was just reading was all. Don't worry." Riku chuckled as he just closed the book and placed it next to him. "Besides, I doubt I'd get much reading done with you here."
"Why's that?" Sora asked confused as he tilted his head slightly to the side. Was that a bad thing? Reading was kinda boring to Sora most of the time.
"Because you'd just distract me." Riku chuckled as he shook his head. He didn't mind Sora coming and distracting him. At least it was almost always an interesting time when Sora was here.
Sora gasped. "Would not!" He would never purposely distract Riku! Well, that's not true. He distracts Riku all the time. Still though, he wouldn't do it on purpose. It just happens!
"Mhm." Riku patted the top of Sora's head.
Aqua had just walked over to Terra and talked to him about some classes actually. "So study in the Great Hall later?" She smiled at him.
Terra nodded. "Definitely. You, me, and Vanitas." He enjoyed studying with his friends honestly. It made it a lot more fun than doing it alone.
"Yeah." Aqua smiled more as she nodded. She definitely liked having study sessions with other people. Sure, Vanitas had his jerk moments, but he really was a decent guy under all the layers and walls.
"And you can invite Zack." Terra hummed with a warm smile. He already knew about how close Zack and Aqua had become. He was happy for her happiness though. His friends all deserved to be happy.
"What?" Aqua blushed lightly at the suddenness of him saying that. Why'd Terra have to say it like that? It's not like Aqua and Zack were dating.
"Aww. Who's Zack?" Xion asked with a smile from where she was sitting. Apparently, the mention of someone else grabbed the other's attention because the group was looking at Aqua and Terra curiously.
"He's someone in our year." Terra answered, leaving out the part where Aqua has come to Terra talking about Zack for a while in the past year. He wouldn't say much without Aqua's consent. He would joke with her but would never tell personal things like that about her to anyone else. Even their own friend group. It'd just be rude on Terra's part.
"That's all he is." Aqua nodded. Despite the fact Zack has made it pretty clear he liked her, Aqua wasn't sure she was even ready to be in a relationship though. She's never really been in a real one. There's been very small crushes, but she normally never acted on any of them.
Vanitas looked at Aqua. He already knows about Zack's crush on Aqua. "You sure?" Did Aqua seriously not want to tell the others about that? Really?
Aqua just nodded once again. She didn't know even when or if she would be ready to have her first boyfriend. How does someone even know when they are ready to be in a relationship? "He's just a friend and someone in our year. That's it."
"Alright." Kairi nodded slowly. She was kinda curious but didn't want to push too hard on the topic. She had heard Aqua mention Zack a few times, but Aqua never went into too much detail with it. Normally, she would just mention him and talk about things Zack had done in that day or something.
Meanwhile, Riku blinked a few times in confusion as he looked at Aqua. Okay- After a second, he turned his attention back towards Sora with a small sigh. He chuckled lightly at seeing the excited brunette start going on about how chocolate frogs are better than pumpkin pasties. Sora's only argument? The chocolate part of chocolate frogs. Riku figured he had forgotten all about the frog part.
"Sor, they're still frogs." Kairi sighed. She found frogs kinda weird. They didn't scare her or gross her out, but the idea of them being covered in chocolate and the fact of Sora is saying it's amazing definitely does seem weird and just plain out crazy.
"But it's chocolate. Anything is delicious with chocolate." Sora told her. That's a statement he lives by forever. Fruit, marshmallows, any kind of treat, and so many other perfect foods made even more perfect by adding chocolate!
"Not everything." Roxas snorted. Sora makes it sound like chocolate goes with anything. It seriously doesn't. Ventus has tried before. It ended in a huge mess that Roxas ultimately ended up cleaning.
Xion nodded in agreement. "Exactly. Just because it has chocolate doesn't make it amazing."
She didn't see how her brother would actually think just because it has chocolate, it's automatically amazing.
"Like what then?" Sora asked them. What could possibly go in chocolate and not be good? Chocolate makes everything better.
"How about we put a spider in chocolate and see if you'll eat that?" Lea chuckled. "Since you'll try to talk about how chocolate frogs are the best, let's put spiders in chocolate to see how you do."
"Only if you eat it, too." Sora shook his head. See, one thing about Sora was he did not like spiders one bit. They creeped him out sometimes.
Lea just looked at Sora with a small playful smirk. "Nah uh. You're the one that said anything is delicious with chocolate."
Sora huffed. Right. Well, he would rather not eat a spider. He couldn't say that there were things that weren't good even with chocolate either. No way.
Riku chuckled and patted Sora's head. "Come on, Sor. You have to admit it." He figured Sora wouldn't admit it regardless of anything they brought up. Sora loved chocolate too much to do that.
"Don't know what you're talking about." Sora shook his head. Nope. Not gonna do it. He couldn't betray chocolate. What did the chocolate ever do to them to make them say these things about it? So rude.
"Sure, you don't." Riku just looked at Sora with a small smile. Riku just found this pretty funny if he were being honest. Sora was always such a dork.
Sora couldn't help but smile a little at Riku. He just shrugged. Sora was just having fun right now. Besides, he would never admit that some things aren't good in chocolate. Chocolate is the best thing in the entire universe after all.
Kairi and Ventus were just watching and taking bets on who they think would actually eat anything in chocolate. Kairi thought either Sora or Ventus actually. Ventus was convinced that Lea would be willing to do whatever if someone paid or dared him. "But you would probably eat anything chocolate, Ven." Kairi chuckled.
"Point taken. I still think Lea would do it though." Ventus shrugged. He could definitely see Lea doing that. It would be funny to watch him do it, too.
"Think Lea would do what?" Roxas asked them, putting the conversation he was having with Vanitas and Lea about classes on hold. Lea looked at Kairi and Ventus with a slightly raised eyebrow. Vanitas was silently wanting to keep talking to Roxas. Why did Roxas have to listen to those two?
"Eat anything in chocolate." Ventus answered with a shrug. He has seen Lea do a lot of crazy things for a dare.
"I would not." Lea looked at Ventus. Why would he eat anything in chocolate?
"What if someone paid or dared you?" Ventus asked suspiciously. He had a hard time believing tha Lea would ever say no to a dare or money.
When Lea paused and didn't say anything, it definitely answered the question. Kairi and Ventus both laughed a bit. Roxas snorted as he looked at Lea. "Well, I can't turn down a dare!" Lea defended himself.
"Sure, Lea." Kairi nodded as she laughed. There are some lines that you shouldn't go over even for a dare. That was something Lea definitely never could grasp.
"Well, what if I dared you to do something? What would you do?" Lea asked.
"Depends on the dare." Kairi shrugged with a smile. If it was something that made her want to throw up or could hurt someone, she wouldn't do it. Other than that, she would do any dare.
Lea just rolled his eyes. This girl was crazy. After a second, he smirked a bit. "So if I were to dare you to kiss someone, would you?"
"Depends on who I'm kissing." Kairi told him, curiosity showing on her face. Did she want to know what Lea was thinking right now?
Lea just thought it all over. Vanitas is a no. Roxas is a straight up hell no. Maybe Sora. No to Terra. No to Aqua. Ventus is a possibly. Riku is a probably not. "I dare you to kiss Sora."
Kairi blinked a few times. Um- "What?" Did Lea just say the name Kairi thinks she just heard.
"Yeah. I dare you to kiss Sora. Ten seconds." Lea nodded. That's what he said. Yup. He doubted Kairi would actually do it.
Ventus looked at Kairi. She wouldn't actually kiss him, would she? Kairi wouldn't do that. Why did Lea have to say that dare? Lea knew Kairi was too stubborn!
Kairi couldn't resist the dare that time. She wasn't going to deal with Lea teasing her for not doing it. So Kairi got up and went to Sora, not even giving the unsuspecting brunette a warning as she kissed him. She counted in her head before pulling away as soon as she got to ten seconds.
Sora was actually wide eyed, shock and surprise clear on his face. He was literally just frozen right now except for blinking and breathing. Even then, he was barely blinking. Did Kairi just- She actually- WHAT?!
"Uh, Kai?" Riku just looked at her with slight surprise. What the- Why did Kairi kiss Sora? That makes no sense.
Even Aqua and Terra were looking at Kairi confused, wondering what happened. Aqua was mainly the confused one, looking at Kairi with slightly widened eyes and her head tilted slightly to the side. Terra had a slightly unreadable expression on his face. It was definitely one that none of the others had ever really seen before.
Meanwhile, Ventus was just staring at Kairi. She did it. She actually did it. He couldn't believe Kairi seriously just kissed Sora. He blamed Lea completely.
Xion and Namine were looking at Kairi in slight confusion. The two glanced at each other before back towards Sora and Kairi. Why did Kairi actually kiss Sora? Namine and Xion heard the dare, but they doubted Kairi would seriously kiss Sora.
Roxas was currently trying to not laugh along with Lea. Well, Lea had already failed. The male red head was holding his stomach as he just laughed louder. Neither of them thought Kairi would've actually done it.
Vanitas was just watching with a raised eyebrow. He didn't understand why Kairi seriously did the dare. The thing he was mostly confused about was the strange look on Terra's face. Was that jealousy? Protectiveness? What was it?
Kairi shifted a bit under the stares. Alright then.. "Lea dared me." That was her only real defense. After that, Kairi just went to Ventus and stood next to him again. Yup. That just happened. She decided to just ignore everything else as she stayed with Ventus.
The group actually disbanded not too long after. There wasn't as much awkwardness all around, but a few of them definitely were still very confused as to why Kairi didn't just say no to the dare. Most of them decided not to question it though, but none of them questioned Kairi about it.
Sora had calmed and just walked with Riku, some of the shock and surprise still on Sora's face. Riku and him just decided to walk around the castle until they had to go to classes.
Kairi decided to head back to the girl's dormitory in the Gryffindor common room to just have some alone time. She was actually questioning why she didn't say no to the dare. Especially after it made everything so weird after.
Ventus, Lea, and Roxas ended up heading off to go find something else to do in order to stay occupied until they had to go to their next classes.
Xion and Namine just went off to their own classes to get some extra studying and work done. They both wanted to get their minds over the fact their siblings just kissed each other which was weird all in itself.
Aqua, Terra, and Vanitas headed to the Great Hall in order to start their studying. "So, Terra, what was that back there?" Vanitas asked him when they entered the Great Hall.
"What was what?" Terra looked at Vanitas curiously. Terra had actually calmed as well. He kinda didn't even know what it was exactly either.
"That look you had after Kairi kissed Sora." Vanitas clarified as the three went to the Gryffindor table and sat down.
Terra thought for a second. He had been wondering what it was he was feeling as well. He couldn't figure it all out though. "Not sure." He shook his head as he looked at Vanitas.
Vanitas raised an eyebrow slightly as he looked at Terra. "You don't know what you were feeling before?" He asked, definitely confused. Was Terra still oblivious to things or no?
Aqua was just watching the two and listening. She was mainly wondering if Terra was alright. She hadn't noticed the look Terra had though, having been too confused to notice much else.
Terra had just shook his head. "No clue." He really didn't know. He wasn't entirely sure what it was but knew it wasn't the greatest feeling altogether.
Zack Fair walked into the Great Hall not long after and smiled widely when he saw Aqua before walking over to the trio. "Hey, Aqua!"
"Zack!" Aqua looked at Zack and just smiled at him. Zack did look kinda cute especially when he smiled-wait, what? Nope. Totally didn't just have that thought. Just pretend it never happened.
Zack sat next to Aqua since she had an empty spot next to her. "So what are you guys doing?" He asked the trio.
"Well, we are supposed to be studying, but Vanitas is trying to figure out Terra's feelings." Aqua chuckled. Maybe they could do the same for Aqua since she doesn't seem to know when someone is ready for their first boyfriend. How does one know this stuff?
Zack nodded at that and just took in a deep breath. Alright. "Speaking of feelings, I was wondering something." He looked at Aqua with a smile.
Aqua looked at Zack and just blinked a few times. Um. Does she want to know where this is going? She kinda has an idea, but she wasn't sure what her answer would even be!
Terra and Vanitas both looked at Aqua and Zack curiously. Oh boy. They both had ideas on where this was going. The two of them already had a guess that Aqua felt the same way though.
"Aqua, will you go out with me?" Zack asked Aqua, the smile not one leaving or faltering. He was hopeful that Aqua would say yes.
Aqua felt some heat rise to her cheeks at the question from slight embarrassment. "Well, I don't know." She spoke softly. "I have so much work to do and helping Terra and Vanitas."
"No, she doesn't." Vanitas shook his head. "She is completely free." He smirked as he just watched. This was interesting to him. Don't judge him.
Terra just looked at Aqua. "Do it. We know you like him." He whispered softly to Aqua with a warm smile.
Aqua glanced at Vanitas and Terra before to Zack. Maybe now would be a good time after all? With a nod, she just smiled softly at Zack. "Yes."
Alrighty! Now that that's done, I will get to work on the next chapter that I should have done. Thanks for reading! Hope to see you in the next chapter!
You are all beautiful and perfect how you are no matter what anyone says or thinks! Don't forget to love yourself all day everyday!
Starlight out!