Chapter 19: Slip of words

Sora and Max started to clean up the mess from their lunch while Brian stayed on lookout. A couple times while eating, Sora felt a struck of pain run through his arm causing him gritted his teeth and grab his arm in pain. Max noticed this and asked if he was alright but Sora just forced a smile and said that he was fine. They finished cleaning up when Sora grabbed his arm in pain again. When the pain passed, Sora looked at Max, who had a worried expression on his face.

"You sure you're ok?" Max asked, worried

"Yeah I'm fine." He lied; Sora was in a lot of pain. He started to think that the heartless bite didn't only break through his arm. Sora started to feel that something has been unleashed and worried that if that was the case, it would grow over time and consume him. Like Darkness but he wasn't sure. He had asked Roxas about this but he was just a clueless as he was. All he knew was that it hurts…ALOT!!!

"Well maybe you should ask Brian to check your arm out." Max suggested. Sora came out of his thoughts and looked at Max in disbelief.

"What can Brian do?!" Sora asked

"You'll be surprised what Brian knows." Max replied, "One time, I was skateboarding and I ended up breaking my leg. Brian came and fixes it straight away without using cure and that Hikari and I had caught him reading medical journals about all kinds of enemies. Plus, if it's really bad then Brian can always contact Kyle and ask him what to do."

"Maybe you're right Max. I'll ask him to check it when we get back on the gummi." Sora promised. "Thanks Max"

"No problem Sora. Ah-huck!" Max covered his mouth in embarrassment. He hated his laugh. After hearing that laugh, questions started to flood in Sora's spiky head.

"Hey Max. What happened to you and Goofy anyway?" he asked

"He was always too busy with being Captain of the Guards and sleeping to pay any attention of me." Max said sadly, "I bet he didn't even mention me while he and Donald were travelling with you." Sora opened his mouth to help his friend but closed it again to realise that Max was right. Goofy never said anything about him. "I didn't want to get taught how to fight by my dad anyways so when Danny…um Daniel had crashed onto Disney Castle, I when with him."

"Max. I didn't know. I'm-" Sora said slowly

"If you're gonna apologise then there's no need." Max cut him off, he and Sora then got up from the ground, not realising that they had sat down. "C'mon. Let's get back to lookout." Sora agreed and both off them started to walk back to Brian.

When they had reached him, Brian was looking out of the binoculars. "Damn! That lifeguard in red would look so much better with me." He said to himself, not realising that Sora and Max was behind him. Max just sighed while Sora shook his head in disappointment but carried on listening.

"Wow! She is FIT!!" he whistled

"Fit?" Sora whispered to Max, not wanting Brian to hear him.

Max answered in the same tone of voice," Brian's way of saying that they're hot or fine or sexy even."

"Oh forget the lifeguard. Lilo's sister is even fitter than her. WOW! Shame she's with that fire spinner, surfer guy." He sighed. Sora and Max both made themselves noticed by Brian when he mentioned Lilo's sister.

If she's here than means Lilo and Stitch won't be that far away.

Sora grabbed the binoculars to check if Brian was just lying while Brian groaned in pain from Sora's sudden grab, got up off the ground and started to brush the sand off his shirt and jeans. He then appointed his attention to Max. "You guys took your time eating. What did you talk about?"

"Nothing important." Max shrugged, "Anyway, why are you interested in Lilo's sister anyways? She like Daniel's age."

"Because she's fit." Brian simply answered

"Looks isn't the only thing you know."

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever." He then looked at Sora. "Hey Sora, do you think that we should ask Donald and Goofy if they see any sign of your gay stalker?" he randomly asked

"Brian! How many times do I have to tell you? HE IS NOT A GAY STALKER!!!" Sora moaned, turning his head behind him to face Brian.

"Ok I was just asking!" Brian reassured

Brian, Sora and Kairi had explained the situation about Ven to the others and all agreed that they would look for any signs of him during their journey. Riku had said that he had heard the name before but couldn't remember where. The only one that might know something was King Mickey but he got captured.

Sora turned his head back towards the beach and started to look for Stitch again. "Hey Brian, What are we gonna do with Stitch once we find him?" he asked, not turning to face him.

"See, that's the hard part." Brian took a deep breathe before he started to explain, "I would want to send 626 back to Hollow Bastion but-"

"Radiant Garden." Sora and Max corrected in unison.

"Does it matter!?!" Brian moaned, "Anyway, Daniel wants me to send him back to Little Devon so he can destroy him. If I don't then me and Hikariare going home and 626 will still get destroyed." Sora rose from the ground and looked at Brian angrily.

"That's not fair!! Stitch has a heart; he has a right to live." Sora raged, he could feel his arm shake in pain again but simply ignored it. "Why can't he just go back to Radiant Garden where his friends are!?!"

"You think I haven't tried?!!!! I think that this is wrong too but there's nothing I can do!! DON'T BLAME ME!!!" Brian shot back. Sora turned away from Brian and back on lookout.

"I can't really blame Brian for this. He did save Stitch before but I just wish his life didn't have to end this way." Sora said in his mind

Sora carried on his lookout and Brian turned to Max, giving him an evil glare.

"What?" asked Max

"This is your entire fault!" Brian proclaimed

"What did I do?!?" Max whined

"If you had gotten the supplies off my gummi then I wouldn't had to call Daniel about it, tell him the truth and then I wouldn't be in the situation of looking like the bad guy."

"Guys..." Sora called

"It's not my fault! You created Stitch so it is your fault!!" Max argued

"Guys!"

"I wouldn't have created 626 if I wasn't bored considering that either you or Hikari came to visit me when I was struck inside." Brian shot back

"Well Daniel kept us away and kept saying that you needed to recover from the crash so you can't blame me for that!"

"YES I CAN!!!" Brian shouted

"GUYS!!!!" Sora yelled finally grabbing their attention. "Stitch is on the beach and you're not gonna believe your eyes." Max and Brian stopped arguing and looked at the direction Sora was pointing to.

Sora was right. They couldn't believe their eyes

In Riku's Group….

"No!"

"Come on!"

"No!"

"Please Kairi"

"No!"

"C'mon Kairi, I'm like a brother to you. Please tell us."

"No!"

"Kairi! Silver can't tell stories to save his life or anyone else for that matter."

"Hey!"

"Point is I need to hear it from a reliable source so please"

"No!"

"Hey Kairi, I'll get you something nice if you tell."

"NO!!!"

For about the last half an hour, Kairi had been saying 'No' to telling Riku and Hikari about her feelings for Sora. It all started when they had started to work on the gummi which was now half complete. Kairi was daydreaming about Sora (Who else would it be?) and of course Riku saw her face and thought it was a good time to tease. Riku coughed a couple of times while Hikari looked at him wondering if he was choking on something. When Riku spoke, his voice sounded like Sora's. Hikari was about ask him what he was up to but then saw Kairi looking for Sora.

Kairi was deep in her daydream so she didn't know that Riku was the one asking the questions. When Riku was going to ask her the big important question, his voice when out of tune and Kairi snapped out of her daydream immediately. She looked confused and then started to regret the daydream as the questions and pleads came running at her.

So here she was, half an hour later, with a dry throat from saying 'No' lots of time. She walked over to their supplies and grabbed a bottle of water. Hikari then came over making Kairi sigh.

"C'mon guys. Can't we talk about something else?" Kairi pleaded

"But I don't know your side of the story." Hikari whined

"The thing is guys. I don't want to get my hopes up." Kairi explained

"What are you talking about Kairi?" Riku asked

"Well, what if he doesn't feel the same way. I mean-"Kairi stopped talking and then turned to Riku, who was chuckling from the comment she had just made. His laughing seized when he caught Kairi's curious glare. Hikari wondered why Riku had started laughing when something clicks in her head.

"Did Sora tell you anything?" Hikari asked with amusement.

"No. But that's beside the point." Riku acted innocently then his voice and actions turned serious. "Kairi, you love Sora, don't you?"

"What?" Kairi laughed nervously and blushed, "I'm not in love with…with…"

"Bloody hell, they even had the same reaction when I asked them that question. I'm getting sick of this. I need to do something…fast." Riku noted in his head, he decided to use the same comment as he did with Sora.

"See. Your heart won't let you lie out of this one." Riku said slowly while having his arms crossed, the same way he did in Radiant Garden. "Admit it Kairi. You love Sora." Kairi was speechless; she didn't know what to do. She could tell them but there were a high risk of Riku telling Sora about her feelings. No matter what the others say; there's still that fear of rejection inside her.

Hikari saw her chance to tease and started to sing, "You think his gorgeous… you want to love him… you want to hug him… you want to kiss him…you want to-"

BEEP BEEP

"Kairi. This is Sora. Can you hear me?"

"Well speaking of your lover." Riku joked. Kairi walked away from the two, her face being the same colour as her hair. She took some deep breathes and ignored Riku and Hikari laughing their heads off from that song before picking up the communicator.

"Kairi here."

"Kairi, we've just found Stitch and you never guess what."

"What?"

"His dress up like Elvis Presley and is playing the guitar as we speak."

"AWWW!!!!! That sounds sssooo cute." Kairi squealed

"What so cute?" Riku asked as he and Hikari came from behind, Hikari would have asked but she didn't would to add another girly word in her vocabulary.

"Sora says that Stitch is dress up like Elvis Presley." She said happily.

"Get a picture!" Riku and Hikari asked in unison. They then looked at each other and started laughing their heads off again.

Kairi just shook her head over their silliness and asked Sora to send them a picture. A couple of seconds later, a picture of Stitch in his Elvis costume printed from the bottom of the communicator and Kairi handed it to Riku and Hikari who had just managed to calm down. As soon as they saw the picture, they ended up falling to the ground, unable to hold their laugher. Kairi walked away from the two laugh-dying freaks so she could hear Sora.

"What's with all the laughing?"

"Riku and Hikari are having laughing fit for no apparent reason." Kairi explained to him.

"Riku? Laughing? That doesn't sound like him."

"I know. It seems that Riku is having one of his rare happy days which also involves teasing me."

"Um...the last time Riku was in one of those moods was when he had just turned 15 and he liked this...girl." There was a sudden silence and then both of them started to laugh at the thought, Kairi always loved his laugh and can imagine him grinning.

"Sora c'mon!! A crowd is surrounding 626, this is our chance!" Kairi heard Brian's voice in the background.

"I gonna go Kairi. Talk to you later."

"Okay Sora." She replied cheerfully

"SORA C'MON!!!!!" Brian yelled in the background

"ALRIGHT ALRIGHT I'M COMING!!! Talk to you later Kai. Love ya. Bye" Sora said quickly and then hanged up. Kairi was speechless; she started to feel her face heat up again and started to be relieved about Riku and Hikari not eavesdropping due to them dying of laughter.

"Did he just say what I think he'd just said?" She asked herself

A Questionable thought maybe? But that didn't stop Kairi grinning ear to ear.

In Sora's group...

Brian had just skidded to a halt when he had heard Sora's last comment to Kairi. He couldn't believe that Sora had just said it, he personally thought it was gonna take him at least 5, 10 years before he actually say it. But NO, He had just said it, right here, right now. Brian turned to Sora with his jaw dropped and his eyes widened.

"OH MY GOD!!! SORA ACTUALLY OWNS A PAIR OF BULLS!!!" Brian shouted in shock. Max stopped in his tracks and wondered what was with Brian's random statement.

"What are yo-" Sora didn't finished as a quick flashback passed through his mind, curiously of Roxas.

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"I've just said that!!??!!" Sora jumped with a worried tone, "Ah, Kairi properly hates me now. I got to apologise to her." Before Sora even had a chance to grab the communicator, Brian had sprinted over and grabbed the communicator. "Brian! Give it back! I need it." He called desperately

"Now now Bigfoot! We wouldn't want to give Kairi the wrong thoughts now would we?" he laughed, then he turned and headed further into the treeline. Sora got up straight away and started to catch Brian.

"Guys! Come back! We need to catch..." Max looked back at the beach to see everyone on the beach gone apart from Lilo and Stitch waving sheepishly at Nani and a very angry lifeguard stomping off the beach. "...Stitch." He finished. Max sighed and shook his head before following the two spiky heads.

A/N: I like this chapter. I couldn't stop giggling

Brian: Kingdommad doesn't own Kingdom Hearts or Disney or Square-enix or that the song Hikari sings from the film miss congeniality.

Kairi: That film is so funny

Mad: I'm watching it tonight. You want to watch it to.

Everyone: Yeah!!!

Mad: Okay I'm gonna watch this film with the Kingdom Hearts gang (and Brian) while you guys review and memory the cookies. See ya.