Raspberry Swirl - KH AU series - Story1Ch.1
Title: Raspberry Swirl
Author: Me! _superherogirl_ :D
Pairing: Woo there are many but for now the obvious pairings are RikuxSora, annnnnnnd KairixSelphie and maybe KairixAllthechicksontheisland- just kidding. ;x But you can bet your patooties there will be KairixNamine. Our fave Organization member pairings as well, I managed to add some AkuRoku before I ended the chappy too so yays!
Rating: PG-16 always to be on the safe side
Summary: The heart is indeed very complex, and these teenagers on the verge of graduating from Destiny High are going to realize how important it really is what they've been overlooking all along. And heads up this is quite the pointless christmas fic, just in time for the holidays ya?
POV: third, only diary entries and such will be in first person duh.
Authors Note: Three cheers for the hilarity that is adolescence! This is the first piece in a set of AU stories that will accompany this one later on. There will be more author notes at the end of the chapter. Enjoy!
Dedications: My wonderful buddies Rose, Dee, Hannah, and Chantel! Love you guys to bits! I do hope some of you will like this fic.
Disclaimer: Unfortunately the wonderful world of Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy and Disney... don't belong to me. Tis a sad, sad day. :(
It was a day like no other on Destiny Island; it might look exactly the same to the infrequent observer, but certainly not to the habitant that has been living, as well as roaming around the island for ages. There was always something to do, but at the same time it had become a daily routine. Wake up in the morning. Go to school. Talk to friends. Come back from school. Please mother by doing some chores, finish the homework. The occasional call to the best friends, and maybe if there was any time there would also be the rare visit from said best friend. The visit would either consist of playing video games, or having dinner with the rest of the family. Then finally, sleep. All in all, it was quite routine and Sora despised it. He was not one of those kids that enjoyed sitting in front of a computer doing absolutely nothing productive. Even though his definition of productive might differ from everyone else’s.
Anyways, putting all that aside Sora wanted to go out for some pizza and ice cream. Hey! It was Saturday, so no one had to worry about school or any of that. With Christmas right around the corner, the islands still had the same impeccable sunny weather. Yet another factor that annoyed Sora greatly. Every single sitcom or movie that revolved around Christmas, always had snow. He wanted snow. After he finished getting dressed, he reached over to his Mickey Mouse phone and picked up the receiver. Sora was not about to go for pizza and ice cream without calling up his pals.
The brunet knew his best friend’s phone numbers by heart, Kairi being the first he began to dial. She was probably the sweetest, most down to earth girl he ever had the pleasure of meeting. Of course, when you didn’t get on her bad side naturally. He remembered the day they met perfectly well too. Although, it involved way too many coconuts to the head, and his pants falling down to his knees. Oh Riku, he just had to embarrass Sora whilst meeting a very pretty newcomer. Everyone on the island swore that both boys were, in their own way, fighting over Kairi. That simply wasn’t the case; Kairi being the overly clever girl she was, was more than aware of it. Boys were just competitive nincompoops, it was a known fact that all girls knew all too well.
It was by the fourth ring, and Kairi hadn’t yet picked up. Sora sighed, hung up and tried calling again. His determined nature was what he was known for anyway. “Aww come on Kairi, I know you’re there…”
Once again four rings, and nothing. He kept calling, she was bound to get annoyed and answer at one point or another. It was her cell phone after all. No luck. He hung up for what seemed as the fiftieth time.
“What could she possibly be doing at five fifteen in the morning?”
“Maybe she’s sleeping, like any normal human being would be doing at this hour.”
Sora nodded in agreement as he scratched his chin pensively, “Yeah I suppose you’re-”. It then dawned on him he wasn’t talking to himself as he usually would, not entirely. He let a high pitched squeal escape him, which lead to him falling off his bed. All he saw soon after was a head of silver hair poking out from his window. The young brunet stared up as he rubbed his sore bum, “My question is why aren’t you sleeping? And seriously don’t you knock? Or at least give me a ring before you scare me off my bed like that!”
The silver haired culprit smirked, and finished making his way into Sora’s bedroom. He simply shrugged in response, “Scared you off your bed? That’s certainly a new one.”
“Don’t get smart with me Riku!”
Riku made his way over to his best friend, and extended a hand in order to help him up. “It’s not my fault your window was open. In the middle of winter no less.”
“Right, like it even feels like winter around here,” Sora scoffed as he gripped onto his friend’s hand and stood up. He rubbed his bum soon after and grimaced. Stupid wooden floorboards…
“Yeah, the weather around here never cooperates for the holidays.”
Another sigh left Sora’s lips, and he took a quick glance at the round mouse ears from his phone, “Yeah…”
The other boy made his way up to the bed, and sat down. It was a comfy bed after all. “So, why were you bugging Kairi at five in the morning?”
“I… was- I wanted pizza and ice cream.”
Riku blinked, “You’re joking right?”
“I’m serious! I… dunno I just got a weird craving for pizza with paopu chunks on top… and maybe some nice sea salt ice cream- Oh wait no I would prefer vanilla with pieces of cheesecake crust inside.”
A blink was an understatement. Riku was downright staring at his best friend dumbfounded. He took hold of his hand, and brought him closer to himself. Then he placed a hand over his stomach, “Alright who did it?”
Sora shoved Riku’s hand away from his tummy, “Excuse me?”
“Who did this to you?”
“I’m not following Riku. I think you need some more sleep, you‘re not making sense.”
“I didn’t think Kairi was capable of knocking you up. I mean I know she might be a chick, at times, but she’s still more of a dude than-”
Sora glared at him, “Don’t even dare finish that sentence. Even if you only need a word to do so. Now that’s just downright low!”
“You so know it’s true,” Riku said a matter-of-factly.
A change of subject was definitely in order, so a change of subject ensued. A rather subtle one at that. “Why are you up so early?”
Aquamarine eyes met ocean blue ones, and the look in the ocean blue ones were more than a fair warning not to bring up the latter again. The aquamarine eyes heeded the warning. “Technically couldn’t sleep, kept tossing and turning. You know how that is.”
Sora smiled at Riku for the first time since he had scared him off his bed, “Totally. So… Wanna go get some pizza and ice cream later? I’ll try calling Kairi later on too.”
“Sure. Could I take a couple more Z’s on your bed?”
The brunet shrugged, “Okay. Yeah, I’m gonna go shower anyway.”
Riku let a sly grin escape him as he lay back onto the extra comfortable, snuggly bed. “Okay. Don’t take too long now.”
“Hey, don’t tell me how long I can or cannot take!”
The older boy shushed him, “Do you want to wake up your parents? Go shower already. Take as long as you want, I guess.”
“You’re such an ass,” Sora snorted and picked out some clothes from one of his drawers. After he got a hold of a towel as well, he made his way into the bathroom.
As the bathroom door closed shut Riku chuckled, “I’ll leave the next batch of smart-ass remarks for after you come out of the shower…”
******
Deep into a room with pink and lilac walls, covered in an array of movie and band posters, lay a teenage girl snoring on her extra pink bed sheets loudly. In the midst of the very obnoxious snoring a cell phone rang, but said teenage girl heard to no avail. She simply turned to the other side, and continued to sleep soundly. The cell phone rang again, but not even the constant familiar tune was going to wake her up. Kairi had gone to bed pretty late and no one, especially not Sora, which she was quite sure was part of the guilty party, was going to wake her up. After the third time the blasted thing rung, she had no choice but to do just that. There was no way she was going to be able to go back to sleep, as peacefully as she was doing so minutes prior to Sora’s annoyances.
She picked up the pink cell phone, and the purple light glowed as she checked her missed calls. Sora, naturally, four calls. Kairi was certain that his insistent calling wasn’t even for something remotely important. She grunted, got out of bed, and made her way to her bathroom. Morning breath was a killer.
“Stupid Sora, five in the morning and you decide to-,” She yawned in spite of herself. “Damn you, I’m still sleepy.”
Still just as groggy, Kairi brushed her teeth and spit the toothpaste gunk into the sink after doing so. She couldn’t help but wonder, what in the world could Sora want at five o’clock in the flippin’ morning. “Stupid. He so owes me.” Her reflection in the bathroom mirror was quite the scary one, if only Sora could see her now… “Yeah, that’ll show the brute to wake a girl up from her beauty sleep. Especially when she doesn’t get enough beauty sleep to begin with!”
As if on cue her overly girlie phone rang again. If Kairi hadn’t been so miffed she’d probably be humming along to her ‘Simple and Clean’ ring-tone, but alas she was more about to blow a gasket. Maybe even her room, if permitted, but her mother wouldn‘t be too pleased. It had taken some time to redecorate in time for the holidays, and they had just finished up a couple of weeks back.
Rule number twenty-three on how to handle a Kairi: Never, ever disrupt a Kairi’s sleep, because soon after there will be dire consequences at hand. The kind where the perpetrator loses appendages and anything else a Kairi could get her hands on. They are a very rare species indeed, and are usually timid creatures unless provoked. In other words, once provoked the guilty party better haul ass from the sight of one as fast as their legs could carry them.
She flipped open her phone, and answered it with an obvious hint of annoyance, “Sora, you know that you’re only alive right now because you are not standing before me, right? Don’t ever wake me up when I-” Kairi stopped mid-rant when she heard a sob on the other line. It didn’t sound like a Sora sob, she would worry if it were a Sora sob. Her voice softened and gulped, “Sora?”
“I’m sorry Kai, I’ll call later…”
A ton of bricks fell on Kairi in realization to who indeed was on the other line, “No Selphie! I’m sorry, it’s just… I’m a little grumpy. Sora kept calling earlier and-”
“-That early? Gosh, doesn’t he know of rule #23?” Selphie stifled yet another audible sob.
A portion of her maroon colored hair fell into her eyes as a soft chuckle escaped her. She didn’t know what was wrong with her best girlfriend, but whatever it was she had to figure it out pronto. Although she wasn‘t sure how to approach what seemed to be a touchy subject at the moment. “Sora is a complete jerk, but that’s hardly news.”
Selphie half-smiled slightly even if Kairi couldn’t see it, “Nah. I’m sure it must’ve been something important, if he wanted to get a hold of you that early.”
“Whatever, he’s still a jerk. A loveable one, but one nonetheless.”
“I guess.”
The conversation was getting awkward fast, but Kairi didn’t know for the life of her how to bring up whatever Selphie was going to tell her in the first place. At least the sobs stopped, for now anyway. They always had plenty of girl talks, but for some reason she felt that this time was going to be different in some way. Maybe…
“If you’re the least bit curious of why I called…”
Kairi snapped out of it, “Yes! Why were you crying Selph?”
The usually bubbly brunette sighed as she took a deep breath, “Irvine broke up with me via e-mail.”
“WHAT?!” The red head’s anger took a turn for the worse.
“Shush! It’s still really early y’know! Do you want to wake up your mom?”
“I don’t care! Selphie! Where is he?! I’ll kill him!”
Selphie tried her best to calm her best friend down, but she knew all too well it was not going to work. “Please, don’t make such a big deal. I’m over it now, I just wanted to let you know. But on second thought it was probably best I hadn’t told you.”
Kairi fumed, “You were planning on not telling me? Why would you not want to tell me!?”
“Because of how you overreact!”
“I don’t overreact!”
“Yes you do! You’re doing so now!”
“Selph, I told you he was no good. You shouldn’t have gotten so serious with him in the first place! He doesn’t deserve a sweetheart such as yourself!”
A quick knock was heard, and Kairi’s mother walked into the room. She stared at her daughter, and tapped her foot repeatedly in the process. “What is the meaning of all this racket young lady? Do you know what time it is? I only have one day off work and that’s today. The only thing I ever ask from you is to let me sleep in!”
Kairi looked at her mom innocently and pouted, “Mother it’s not my fault! Sora woke me up! And I’ve been grouchy ever since…”
Her mother shook her head and pointed an accusing finger towards her, “That’s no reason to be so loud. Now is that Sora you’re speaking with? I would like to have a word with him.”
“Mom, no wait that’s-” Before she got the chance to reveal who it really was, her mother took hold of the overly pink cell phone.
“Sora, good morning. Even if quite frankly it hasn’t been a rather good one for myself, which I cannot help but hold you accountable for- Selphie? You’re not Sora! Kairi you lied to me, it’s not Sora on the phone!”
Kairi rolled her eyes and threw herself onto her bed hopelessly, “I tried to tell you…” She took back her phone and apologized for the tenth time to poor Selphie. She had seriously gone through enough for one morning.
“I’m going to go back to bed, you can go over to Selphie’s if you wish. As long as you let me sleep. If I’m awaken again, it won’t be pretty.” With that said her mother left the room.
The sole idea of waking up a Kairi was bad enough, but waking up a Kairi’s mother… That would probably lead to some sort of apocalypse. Kairi chuckled at her mother’s antics, “She’s so silly. Either way, as I was saying Selph… Next time I see Irvine, I‘m going to roast him and have him for lunch.”
Selphie sighed, “You’re not my mother, alright? I can take care of myself, I’m seriously feeling much better now. I just needed to get it out of my system.”
“Fine. I’ll let it slide, for now. How about we celebrate you being single again, ne? I’ll treat you to some pizza or something. But first, let me call the pipsqueak and find out what he wanted in the first place. Is that alright?”
Kairi knew that Selphie was smiling real wide on the other end, and that alone made the whole conversation all the worth while. “Alrighty.”
“Talk to ya later Selph,” About to flip the phone closed to end the call, she heard Selphie still talking. Oops.
“Hey!”
“What, what?”
“Thanks Kai,” She then hung up followed by Kairi as well.
Kairi smirked as she stuffed a hand into one of the pockets of her Cheshire cat pajama pants, “When will she learn to stop thanking me for such things? What are friends for if not to invite them to pizza when they’re feeling crummy? Or roasting their ex-boyfriends alive? Heh… that’ll show that jerk.” She had the habit of talking to herself a good amount of the time. It was in a weird way soothing, or just plain comical. Regardless, old habits die hard and talking to herself had been one of those bad habits for ages. One bad habit that Sora seemed to have as well.
She decided to go take a shower before she called anyone else, but that plan had been ruined before it even passed the conceiving process. Once again she picked up her phone and let a low growl escape. There was no doubt about it, that time in fact, was Sora on the other line.
“…”
“Aren’t you going to say anything?”
Sora chuckled nervously, “Good morning?”
Another low growl was heard, “Far from it.”
“Geesh, someone is rather grouchy this fine morning…”
“Define, fine morning you-” She stopped mid-sentence. That voice was certainly not Sora’s… Kairi blinked and her frustration immediately dispersed. She was a smart cookie, so she put two and two together. One Sora, plus Riku’s voice equals… which must mean… Riku must be over Sora’s house! But why that early? This was a job for super sleuth Kairi! Or she could just ask, which was the next thing she did. “Um, Riku? What are you doing over at Sora’s so early? Oh right, and damn you Sora why do you have me on speaker phone?!”
Sora laughed and catapulted himself onto his bed, “Why? You jealous Kairi?”
“Oh yes, extremely. Note my enthusiasm.”
“Eh, Riku is right… you’re rather on the-”
“-Perhaps it’s because a really sweet girl just got dumped via e-mail.”
Riku blinked, “You’re not talking about yourself right?”
“Funny,” Kairi replied in the same monotonous voice. “But really guys, you know I’m grouchy when I’m awaken from my beauty sleep.”
Riku and Sora both said in unison, “Beauty sleep?”
“You must look like shit now, huh?” Riku finished off.
Sora scrunched up his face at the retort, even if it wasn’t directed to him. It was simple and blunt enough, something so completely Riku.
“Oh Riku darling, you’re really not helping my mood.”
As if to subtlety change the subject, Sora went on and asked about the sweet girl that Kairi had referred to. “So, who got dumped?”
Smooth. Kairi twitched, “Selphie. Irvine really did have a death wish after all.”
“Whoa, via e-mail? Doesn’t seem like something he would do, it’s so…”
“Pathetic?”
“More like cowardly, but that works as well. He really liked her too, it doesn’t make sense.”
She rolled her eyes and shook her head, “Yeah right, it does make sense. All guys are dicks, end of story.”
“Hey!”
“Oh right, I’m sorry, for the exception of you two from time to time. Riku, stop staring at your crotch I didn‘t mean it in a literal sense. Not entirely anyway.”
Riku stared over at Sora and looked around the room, “Are you sure this place is not bugged or something?”
Kairi laughed, which took her long enough to do, “You’re quite the comedian this morning.”
“Aren’t I always?” Riku smirked.
Sora laughed as well and finally brought up the reason he called in the first place. “So, want to go for pizza and ice cream later?”
“Cool beans, but only if Selphie can come along too.”
“Duh.”
“Good, well then I’ll talk to you dudes later.”
“Later Kairi! I’m just going to go on and continue having my way with Riku,” Sora said trying to hold back any laughter from his more than obvious bluff.
A blush formed over her cheeks, and she was so glad it was just a phone conversation. They couldn’t see her face. Two could play that game she thought, “Fine, I’m going to go shower and think up of many naughty things I could do to… What was the new girl‘s name again? Oh yes, Naminé. Mmm, Naminé…”
Sora shook his head because he knew he had heard something completely blasphemous, “Liar. You can’t fool us Kairi, you don’t like chicks. You might come off as a-”
She replied in an ever sweet tone, “Bye, bye.” Kairi hung up and left the rest to the boy’s imaginations. The three of them were always teasing each other in that manner, but in the end they all knew it was just a joke. Kairi liked boys, and Sora as well as Riku liked girls. But sometimes she wasn’t so sure about the boys. Or were her fangirlish fantasies getting to her? Regardless of whichever reason it may be, it would still be awkward. She cannot think of her best friends in that way! If she was never able to crush on them when she was younger, she couldn’t imagine anticipating them doing stuff with each other! She began to laugh hysterically at such thoughts, but soon stopped before her mother woke up again.
“Nonsense.”
After Kairi threw a towel over her shoulder, she took notice of the picture frame on her dresser. It was her two favorite boys and favorite girl, all which had tackled her. She smiled and stared at the firm grip Selphie had on her. For some reason she felt as if she had been claimed as Selphie’s property in some way or other. Although, that was just Kairi letting her own imagination get the best of her. Why would Selphie ever claim Kairi as her own? She shrugged off anymore ridiculous thoughts.
“More and more nonsense.”
Without a second glance more, she finally went to take that long awaited shower.
*****
“Do you think she was bluffing?”
Still sprawled over Sora’s bed Riku arched a brow, “Of course. We joke about stuff like that all the time remember?”
Sora’s nose twitched as he sat on the edge of the bed, “Yeah, you’re right. It’s not like we would ever do any of the things we tease Kairi about… I mean, why would we? That‘s pretty much gross.”
Riku sat up and looked over at his best friend, “Are you trying to say you find me gross?”
“Oh yes Riku, I find you completely disgusting and repulsive. That must be the reason why every chick at school has this mondo crush on you!”
“You sound rather jealous,” He placed his hands just above Sora’s waist and began to tickle him.
“Ah! Stop it… you know I’m… super ticklish!”
Riku snorted and continued tickle torturing him, “That’s precisely why I’m doing it!”
The boy leaned against Riku in a lame attempt to escape the wrath of the tickle monster he had suddenly become. Unfortunately the situation was hopeless. Sora had begun to cough from laughing so much, and that’s when it stopped. Although, the other boy’s hands were still placed over Sora’s waist. The brunet dismissed it, and continued to laugh.
“Had enough?” Riku asked with that same devious smirk plastered on his overly pretty porcelain looking face.
“You’re made of pure evil, know that?”
What happened next made Sora gasp, he felt Riku nuzzle his face over his neck. For whatever reason it may have been, it made the victim of the tickle attack blush. He couldn’t understand why a simple act of affection between two pals made his cheeks so terribly hot.
“If only Kairi could see us now,” Riku teased.
Sora couldn’t find the right words to respond to that. Alright, so they would joke around about doing unmentionable things to each other, but they never acted upon them. Not even as a joke! This was totally new to Sora… He suddenly felt incredibly shy around his best friend, which he knew he shouldn’t.
Since Sora decided to go mute for the time being, Riku mused on, “I bet she’d love this. Or maybe…” Riku then let go of Sora’s waist, and pushed his body forward in order for him to land face first on the mattress.
Another surprised gasp left the oblivious boy’s lips, but he finally found his voice. “Riku… what are you…”
“Oh nothing Sora, I’m just going to-” He paused when he felt Sora squirm beneath him. That and the fact that Riku’s pant pocket had vibrated; so he pulled the phone out of his pocket, and answered it. “What do you want? I’m kinda busy.”
“What? Did I get you at a bad time?”
“As a matter of fact yes, yes you did.”
“Sexing up Sora or something?”
“Fuck off, Axel.”
“Ooh, is that a yes then? Well, either way can you stop molesting him for a couple of minutes or so? I really need to talk to you.”
“Later,” Riku hung up just as fast as he answered the call.
Sora hadn’t heard any of the short conversation. Although assumed it was something interesting considering the colorful words Riku responded back with. He rolled off his bed because he wasn’t sure he could take anymore of that awkward position he was in. After doing so he looked up at Riku and smirked, “What did Axel want? And why is everyone waking up at the crack of dawn on a Saturday?”
“Huh?” Riku hadn’t noticed Sora roll off, until he heard the thump on the floor. He shrugged at his question, “Not sure, I hung up on him before he got to ask.”
The brunet chuckled and stood back up, “Oh okay. Anyways, what are we going to do while we wait for Kairi to finish and stuff?”
Riku had a couple of things in mind, but swatted those ideas away instantly. He wasn’t sure what had come over him a couple of minutes ago. If Axel hadn’t called, he shuddered to think what he would’ve done to an overly vulnerable Sora. Even though he was sure Sora wouldn’t let anything weird happen, but still. He didn’t feel… or he felt something else. He wasn’t quite sure what though.
“Riku? Yoo-hoo!” Sora waved a hand over his friend’s face to snap him out of his reverie.
He caught the boy’s hand in mid-air and smiled, “What?”
“You were full on daydreaming buddy!” Sora chuckled wholeheartedly, “Now the million munny question is… who were you daydreaming of?”
Was the boy telepathic or something? Or did he just plain ol’ wanted to embarrass Riku? Regardless of the situation at hand, Riku played it cool. All he had to do was lie, how hard could it be? He was not about to admit to having just had a semi-naughty thought of his best friend. Never. “Tifa.”
“Oh really?”
Riku nodded, “Yes really. She has legs to die for, and a rack that-”
“Okay, okay I get it! I actually have my eyes on someone too.”
“Hmm, who?”
“She’s just cute, and very hyper.”
“More hyperactive than Selphie? There’s absolutely no such thing, unless it is Selphie.”
Sora felt his cheeks become warm again. He had never realized how ironic that his crush’s name was, Rikku. He coughed and shook his head, “It’s not Selphie.”
“Then who? You know I’m only going to continue pestering you until you tell me.”
“Go on then, but I’m not telling,” Sora stuck his tongue out and placed his hands on his hips. He smiled triumphantly, because for some reason or other he thought he won the argument. But war had just begun as Sora was smacked across the face by one of his very own pillows. His jaw dropped in indignation, and then did the next best thing. “Oh it’s war now Riku! RAH!” He pounced on him, and shoved the same pillow Riku had thrown in his direction, over his face.
Riku effortlessly got rid of the pillow, and pushed Sora off him. He rolled over and ended up above him once again. Although he was not in that position for long, because soon after a wrestling match between the two ensued. Always competing they were, but it was definitely one of the best ways to pass the time. Even if Riku always ended up winning, in due time Sora would become a decent match for Riku. Just not right now…
Both short of breath, the younger of the two was once more pinned down. Riku grinned wide as a devious cat would, while Sora admitted defeat… again. “I win.”
Sora huffed, “When don’t you…”
“Aww, are you getting back into that sore loser phase of yours?”
He attempted to shove him off, but still being short of breath, and really exhausted he hadn’t succeeded. Instead Sora did something he seemed to do quite often, change the subject. “You should call Axel back.”
The older boy’s tousled hair was brushed back by one of the hands that had pinned down his best friend. He noticed the pout beginning to form on Sora’s lips, and couldn’t help but want to kiss them to make everything better. But in fact it would probably make everything much worse. It seemed that in the midst of all the joking around and teasing, something began to surface. Whatever it was, Riku sure as hell was not about to admit anything of the sort. It was just the lighting in the room that’s all. No reason to worry. He got off Sora and nodded, “You’re right, and maybe he’d like to tag along too.”
“Of course he’s going to want to tag along. I was planning to invite my cousin too y’know.”
“Oh dear, and you say I’m evil? You know how he feels about Roxas.”
Sora’s pout immediately transformed into a devious smile, “I know.”
Riku chuckled as he called Axel back, “Wow, this is going to be one very interesting rendezvous. Hey, Sora?”
Still laying on his bed as if dumbstruck he simply mumbled, “Hmm?”
“Your parents sure are heavy sleepers.”
The both of them once again laughed hysterically, because everyone knew in a past life they were a pair of hyenas.
*****
Demyx heard a cell phone ring nearby, but he didn’t have one… so it couldn’t possibly be his. He looked around but didn’t see any signs of such a contraption.
“Hmm, now where could it be?”
He sat down Indian-style on the bedroom floor, and went through the Winnie The Pooh thinking process.
“Think… think… think…”
“Demyx what the hell are you doing?”
Demyx immediately shot up when he spotted his best friend walking back into the room. “Hey Axel! I heard a phone ring, but it’s not mine because well… I don’t have one. And so I looked around the room to see if I could find the source but… I had no such luck,” he finished off with an all too adorable pout.
Axel rolled his eyes, he was quite immune to Demyx’s pouts and stupidities. He reached over to his bed and picked up his mobile phone, “Do you mean this?”
“Oh my yes! That’s what was making the noise! Well, it wasn’t exactly noise I really do love your ring-tone. How was it again?” He cleared his throat and began to make guitar noises, “Trashed and scattered again, I’m feelin’ so low! You waste your breath while aheming with me, my blood is so cold!”
“Cute. But really Dem, the line is ‘You waste your breath while fuckin’ with me. Get it right.”
Demyx looked down and turned a bit pink, “Yeah but um you know how I feel about cussing.”
“Oi… Oh well lookie here.”
“Ooh, what Axel?”
“Riku has decided to call me back. He better have done Sora in every which way, if that’s the case. Honestly, I had only wanted a minute of his time. I doubt it would’ve taken them that long- Oh he left a message, hmm let’s hear it then.”
Demyx made his way closer to Axel and snorted, “What did he say?”
“Uh,” Axel smirked and made his way to get some clothes from his closet. “Demyx buddy, we have some business to attend to. We’ve been invited to pizza and ice cream.”
“Ooh pizza! Can I have pizza with ice cream on top?!” The dirty blond squealed.
Axel cringed, “Eww, I’ve only heard of those wonky combinations from like Scooby-Doo and shit.”
“It’s so yummy though!” Demyx jumped up and down from his excitement.
“Right, sure you can get whatever you want as long as you have the munny for it.”
“YAY!”
Axel would’ve had smacked Demyx over the head from utter annoyance at this point, but lucky for him Riku had given him interesting news. “Now what should I wear to impress my dear Roxas?”
Demyx arched a brow, “Roxas is coming along too?”
“Yep,” He pulled out two pairs of pants, one being a pair of ripped jeans, while the other were a pair of red leather ones. “I think I’ll go with the red ones, what do you think?”
“Hmm,” Demyx felt like a teenage schoolgirl helping out his equally school-girlish best friend to get ready for a hot date. He scratched his head, closed his eyes, and twirled around twice so the finger would automatically point to either piece of clothing. It landed on the pair of leather pants. He smiled, “The red ones!”
“Alright, the red ones they are. Now for the rest of my ensemble.”
“You’re not going to take hours getting dressed are you?”
“Do I look like some lovesick chick about to go on a date of some sort?”
Demyx lifted a finger in declaration, but was cut off before he could actually respond.
“Don’t answer that.”
“Oh don’t worry Axel, you’re going to look mighty fine no matter what you put on!”
“Are you patronizing me?”
“…I’m going to go get something to drink downstairs…”
“Yeah, you go do that.”
And so Demyx left the room, and went downstairs as he said he would. Now Axel could finally finish getting ready in peace, without his imbecile of a friend accusing him of being downright girlie. “Humph, the nerve. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to look good.” He faced his vanity mirror, yes he had a vanity mirror, and began to sort out the makeup he was going to use for his get up today.
“I’m going to look so hot when I’m done. Oh yes Roxas, you’re going to be putty in my hands.”
*****
More A/N: So blame Axel's extra girlish ways on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. I had just finished watching the episode where Hilary is trying to impress this doctor dude. I found it amusing and so... I thought it would be cute if in this fic Axel would be all metrosexual like and stuff. But still with his overly snappy attitude of course! ;P Sorta maybe? I'll keep adding them as they come, but I guess that's it for now. Was it really that bad? Let me know!
And my fanfic Kairi would like to apologize for being so PMSy in this chap. There will be more rules to how to deal with a Kairi in the next one! ;D Here's rule number one for all of those that are maybe wondering... O:)
Rule #1: Never ever mess with a Kairi's woman or she shall bash your brains in. As well as many other unspeakable things. She might even go all Harry Potter on your ass and Avedra Kadavra you. So watch your back. ;D I kinda worry for Irvine in this case. ;)
And just letting you know first page was betaed by my buddy Rose, but in my excitement of wanting to post it at this late hour, the rest hasn't been so. Basically any errors and stuff, sorry I'll try fixing them in the morning!
Author: Me! _superherogirl_ :D
Pairing: Woo there are many but for now the obvious pairings are RikuxSora, annnnnnnd KairixSelphie and maybe KairixAllthechicksontheisland- just kidding. ;x But you can bet your patooties there will be KairixNamine. Our fave Organization member pairings as well, I managed to add some AkuRoku before I ended the chappy too so yays!
Rating: PG-16 always to be on the safe side
Summary: The heart is indeed very complex, and these teenagers on the verge of graduating from Destiny High are going to realize how important it really is what they've been overlooking all along. And heads up this is quite the pointless christmas fic, just in time for the holidays ya?
POV: third, only diary entries and such will be in first person duh.
Authors Note: Three cheers for the hilarity that is adolescence! This is the first piece in a set of AU stories that will accompany this one later on. There will be more author notes at the end of the chapter. Enjoy!
Dedications: My wonderful buddies Rose, Dee, Hannah, and Chantel! Love you guys to bits! I do hope some of you will like this fic.
Disclaimer: Unfortunately the wonderful world of Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy and Disney... don't belong to me. Tis a sad, sad day. :(
It was a day like no other on Destiny Island; it might look exactly the same to the infrequent observer, but certainly not to the habitant that has been living, as well as roaming around the island for ages. There was always something to do, but at the same time it had become a daily routine. Wake up in the morning. Go to school. Talk to friends. Come back from school. Please mother by doing some chores, finish the homework. The occasional call to the best friends, and maybe if there was any time there would also be the rare visit from said best friend. The visit would either consist of playing video games, or having dinner with the rest of the family. Then finally, sleep. All in all, it was quite routine and Sora despised it. He was not one of those kids that enjoyed sitting in front of a computer doing absolutely nothing productive. Even though his definition of productive might differ from everyone else’s.
Anyways, putting all that aside Sora wanted to go out for some pizza and ice cream. Hey! It was Saturday, so no one had to worry about school or any of that. With Christmas right around the corner, the islands still had the same impeccable sunny weather. Yet another factor that annoyed Sora greatly. Every single sitcom or movie that revolved around Christmas, always had snow. He wanted snow. After he finished getting dressed, he reached over to his Mickey Mouse phone and picked up the receiver. Sora was not about to go for pizza and ice cream without calling up his pals.
The brunet knew his best friend’s phone numbers by heart, Kairi being the first he began to dial. She was probably the sweetest, most down to earth girl he ever had the pleasure of meeting. Of course, when you didn’t get on her bad side naturally. He remembered the day they met perfectly well too. Although, it involved way too many coconuts to the head, and his pants falling down to his knees. Oh Riku, he just had to embarrass Sora whilst meeting a very pretty newcomer. Everyone on the island swore that both boys were, in their own way, fighting over Kairi. That simply wasn’t the case; Kairi being the overly clever girl she was, was more than aware of it. Boys were just competitive nincompoops, it was a known fact that all girls knew all too well.
It was by the fourth ring, and Kairi hadn’t yet picked up. Sora sighed, hung up and tried calling again. His determined nature was what he was known for anyway. “Aww come on Kairi, I know you’re there…”
Once again four rings, and nothing. He kept calling, she was bound to get annoyed and answer at one point or another. It was her cell phone after all. No luck. He hung up for what seemed as the fiftieth time.
“What could she possibly be doing at five fifteen in the morning?”
“Maybe she’s sleeping, like any normal human being would be doing at this hour.”
Sora nodded in agreement as he scratched his chin pensively, “Yeah I suppose you’re-”. It then dawned on him he wasn’t talking to himself as he usually would, not entirely. He let a high pitched squeal escape him, which lead to him falling off his bed. All he saw soon after was a head of silver hair poking out from his window. The young brunet stared up as he rubbed his sore bum, “My question is why aren’t you sleeping? And seriously don’t you knock? Or at least give me a ring before you scare me off my bed like that!”
The silver haired culprit smirked, and finished making his way into Sora’s bedroom. He simply shrugged in response, “Scared you off your bed? That’s certainly a new one.”
“Don’t get smart with me Riku!”
Riku made his way over to his best friend, and extended a hand in order to help him up. “It’s not my fault your window was open. In the middle of winter no less.”
“Right, like it even feels like winter around here,” Sora scoffed as he gripped onto his friend’s hand and stood up. He rubbed his bum soon after and grimaced. Stupid wooden floorboards…
“Yeah, the weather around here never cooperates for the holidays.”
Another sigh left Sora’s lips, and he took a quick glance at the round mouse ears from his phone, “Yeah…”
The other boy made his way up to the bed, and sat down. It was a comfy bed after all. “So, why were you bugging Kairi at five in the morning?”
“I… was- I wanted pizza and ice cream.”
Riku blinked, “You’re joking right?”
“I’m serious! I… dunno I just got a weird craving for pizza with paopu chunks on top… and maybe some nice sea salt ice cream- Oh wait no I would prefer vanilla with pieces of cheesecake crust inside.”
A blink was an understatement. Riku was downright staring at his best friend dumbfounded. He took hold of his hand, and brought him closer to himself. Then he placed a hand over his stomach, “Alright who did it?”
Sora shoved Riku’s hand away from his tummy, “Excuse me?”
“Who did this to you?”
“I’m not following Riku. I think you need some more sleep, you‘re not making sense.”
“I didn’t think Kairi was capable of knocking you up. I mean I know she might be a chick, at times, but she’s still more of a dude than-”
Sora glared at him, “Don’t even dare finish that sentence. Even if you only need a word to do so. Now that’s just downright low!”
“You so know it’s true,” Riku said a matter-of-factly.
A change of subject was definitely in order, so a change of subject ensued. A rather subtle one at that. “Why are you up so early?”
Aquamarine eyes met ocean blue ones, and the look in the ocean blue ones were more than a fair warning not to bring up the latter again. The aquamarine eyes heeded the warning. “Technically couldn’t sleep, kept tossing and turning. You know how that is.”
Sora smiled at Riku for the first time since he had scared him off his bed, “Totally. So… Wanna go get some pizza and ice cream later? I’ll try calling Kairi later on too.”
“Sure. Could I take a couple more Z’s on your bed?”
The brunet shrugged, “Okay. Yeah, I’m gonna go shower anyway.”
Riku let a sly grin escape him as he lay back onto the extra comfortable, snuggly bed. “Okay. Don’t take too long now.”
“Hey, don’t tell me how long I can or cannot take!”
The older boy shushed him, “Do you want to wake up your parents? Go shower already. Take as long as you want, I guess.”
“You’re such an ass,” Sora snorted and picked out some clothes from one of his drawers. After he got a hold of a towel as well, he made his way into the bathroom.
As the bathroom door closed shut Riku chuckled, “I’ll leave the next batch of smart-ass remarks for after you come out of the shower…”
******
Deep into a room with pink and lilac walls, covered in an array of movie and band posters, lay a teenage girl snoring on her extra pink bed sheets loudly. In the midst of the very obnoxious snoring a cell phone rang, but said teenage girl heard to no avail. She simply turned to the other side, and continued to sleep soundly. The cell phone rang again, but not even the constant familiar tune was going to wake her up. Kairi had gone to bed pretty late and no one, especially not Sora, which she was quite sure was part of the guilty party, was going to wake her up. After the third time the blasted thing rung, she had no choice but to do just that. There was no way she was going to be able to go back to sleep, as peacefully as she was doing so minutes prior to Sora’s annoyances.
She picked up the pink cell phone, and the purple light glowed as she checked her missed calls. Sora, naturally, four calls. Kairi was certain that his insistent calling wasn’t even for something remotely important. She grunted, got out of bed, and made her way to her bathroom. Morning breath was a killer.
“Stupid Sora, five in the morning and you decide to-,” She yawned in spite of herself. “Damn you, I’m still sleepy.”
Still just as groggy, Kairi brushed her teeth and spit the toothpaste gunk into the sink after doing so. She couldn’t help but wonder, what in the world could Sora want at five o’clock in the flippin’ morning. “Stupid. He so owes me.” Her reflection in the bathroom mirror was quite the scary one, if only Sora could see her now… “Yeah, that’ll show the brute to wake a girl up from her beauty sleep. Especially when she doesn’t get enough beauty sleep to begin with!”
As if on cue her overly girlie phone rang again. If Kairi hadn’t been so miffed she’d probably be humming along to her ‘Simple and Clean’ ring-tone, but alas she was more about to blow a gasket. Maybe even her room, if permitted, but her mother wouldn‘t be too pleased. It had taken some time to redecorate in time for the holidays, and they had just finished up a couple of weeks back.
Rule number twenty-three on how to handle a Kairi: Never, ever disrupt a Kairi’s sleep, because soon after there will be dire consequences at hand. The kind where the perpetrator loses appendages and anything else a Kairi could get her hands on. They are a very rare species indeed, and are usually timid creatures unless provoked. In other words, once provoked the guilty party better haul ass from the sight of one as fast as their legs could carry them.
She flipped open her phone, and answered it with an obvious hint of annoyance, “Sora, you know that you’re only alive right now because you are not standing before me, right? Don’t ever wake me up when I-” Kairi stopped mid-rant when she heard a sob on the other line. It didn’t sound like a Sora sob, she would worry if it were a Sora sob. Her voice softened and gulped, “Sora?”
“I’m sorry Kai, I’ll call later…”
A ton of bricks fell on Kairi in realization to who indeed was on the other line, “No Selphie! I’m sorry, it’s just… I’m a little grumpy. Sora kept calling earlier and-”
“-That early? Gosh, doesn’t he know of rule #23?” Selphie stifled yet another audible sob.
A portion of her maroon colored hair fell into her eyes as a soft chuckle escaped her. She didn’t know what was wrong with her best girlfriend, but whatever it was she had to figure it out pronto. Although she wasn‘t sure how to approach what seemed to be a touchy subject at the moment. “Sora is a complete jerk, but that’s hardly news.”
Selphie half-smiled slightly even if Kairi couldn’t see it, “Nah. I’m sure it must’ve been something important, if he wanted to get a hold of you that early.”
“Whatever, he’s still a jerk. A loveable one, but one nonetheless.”
“I guess.”
The conversation was getting awkward fast, but Kairi didn’t know for the life of her how to bring up whatever Selphie was going to tell her in the first place. At least the sobs stopped, for now anyway. They always had plenty of girl talks, but for some reason she felt that this time was going to be different in some way. Maybe…
“If you’re the least bit curious of why I called…”
Kairi snapped out of it, “Yes! Why were you crying Selph?”
The usually bubbly brunette sighed as she took a deep breath, “Irvine broke up with me via e-mail.”
“WHAT?!” The red head’s anger took a turn for the worse.
“Shush! It’s still really early y’know! Do you want to wake up your mom?”
“I don’t care! Selphie! Where is he?! I’ll kill him!”
Selphie tried her best to calm her best friend down, but she knew all too well it was not going to work. “Please, don’t make such a big deal. I’m over it now, I just wanted to let you know. But on second thought it was probably best I hadn’t told you.”
Kairi fumed, “You were planning on not telling me? Why would you not want to tell me!?”
“Because of how you overreact!”
“I don’t overreact!”
“Yes you do! You’re doing so now!”
“Selph, I told you he was no good. You shouldn’t have gotten so serious with him in the first place! He doesn’t deserve a sweetheart such as yourself!”
A quick knock was heard, and Kairi’s mother walked into the room. She stared at her daughter, and tapped her foot repeatedly in the process. “What is the meaning of all this racket young lady? Do you know what time it is? I only have one day off work and that’s today. The only thing I ever ask from you is to let me sleep in!”
Kairi looked at her mom innocently and pouted, “Mother it’s not my fault! Sora woke me up! And I’ve been grouchy ever since…”
Her mother shook her head and pointed an accusing finger towards her, “That’s no reason to be so loud. Now is that Sora you’re speaking with? I would like to have a word with him.”
“Mom, no wait that’s-” Before she got the chance to reveal who it really was, her mother took hold of the overly pink cell phone.
“Sora, good morning. Even if quite frankly it hasn’t been a rather good one for myself, which I cannot help but hold you accountable for- Selphie? You’re not Sora! Kairi you lied to me, it’s not Sora on the phone!”
Kairi rolled her eyes and threw herself onto her bed hopelessly, “I tried to tell you…” She took back her phone and apologized for the tenth time to poor Selphie. She had seriously gone through enough for one morning.
“I’m going to go back to bed, you can go over to Selphie’s if you wish. As long as you let me sleep. If I’m awaken again, it won’t be pretty.” With that said her mother left the room.
The sole idea of waking up a Kairi was bad enough, but waking up a Kairi’s mother… That would probably lead to some sort of apocalypse. Kairi chuckled at her mother’s antics, “She’s so silly. Either way, as I was saying Selph… Next time I see Irvine, I‘m going to roast him and have him for lunch.”
Selphie sighed, “You’re not my mother, alright? I can take care of myself, I’m seriously feeling much better now. I just needed to get it out of my system.”
“Fine. I’ll let it slide, for now. How about we celebrate you being single again, ne? I’ll treat you to some pizza or something. But first, let me call the pipsqueak and find out what he wanted in the first place. Is that alright?”
Kairi knew that Selphie was smiling real wide on the other end, and that alone made the whole conversation all the worth while. “Alrighty.”
“Talk to ya later Selph,” About to flip the phone closed to end the call, she heard Selphie still talking. Oops.
“Hey!”
“What, what?”
“Thanks Kai,” She then hung up followed by Kairi as well.
Kairi smirked as she stuffed a hand into one of the pockets of her Cheshire cat pajama pants, “When will she learn to stop thanking me for such things? What are friends for if not to invite them to pizza when they’re feeling crummy? Or roasting their ex-boyfriends alive? Heh… that’ll show that jerk.” She had the habit of talking to herself a good amount of the time. It was in a weird way soothing, or just plain comical. Regardless, old habits die hard and talking to herself had been one of those bad habits for ages. One bad habit that Sora seemed to have as well.
She decided to go take a shower before she called anyone else, but that plan had been ruined before it even passed the conceiving process. Once again she picked up her phone and let a low growl escape. There was no doubt about it, that time in fact, was Sora on the other line.
“…”
“Aren’t you going to say anything?”
Sora chuckled nervously, “Good morning?”
Another low growl was heard, “Far from it.”
“Geesh, someone is rather grouchy this fine morning…”
“Define, fine morning you-” She stopped mid-sentence. That voice was certainly not Sora’s… Kairi blinked and her frustration immediately dispersed. She was a smart cookie, so she put two and two together. One Sora, plus Riku’s voice equals… which must mean… Riku must be over Sora’s house! But why that early? This was a job for super sleuth Kairi! Or she could just ask, which was the next thing she did. “Um, Riku? What are you doing over at Sora’s so early? Oh right, and damn you Sora why do you have me on speaker phone?!”
Sora laughed and catapulted himself onto his bed, “Why? You jealous Kairi?”
“Oh yes, extremely. Note my enthusiasm.”
“Eh, Riku is right… you’re rather on the-”
“-Perhaps it’s because a really sweet girl just got dumped via e-mail.”
Riku blinked, “You’re not talking about yourself right?”
“Funny,” Kairi replied in the same monotonous voice. “But really guys, you know I’m grouchy when I’m awaken from my beauty sleep.”
Riku and Sora both said in unison, “Beauty sleep?”
“You must look like shit now, huh?” Riku finished off.
Sora scrunched up his face at the retort, even if it wasn’t directed to him. It was simple and blunt enough, something so completely Riku.
“Oh Riku darling, you’re really not helping my mood.”
As if to subtlety change the subject, Sora went on and asked about the sweet girl that Kairi had referred to. “So, who got dumped?”
Smooth. Kairi twitched, “Selphie. Irvine really did have a death wish after all.”
“Whoa, via e-mail? Doesn’t seem like something he would do, it’s so…”
“Pathetic?”
“More like cowardly, but that works as well. He really liked her too, it doesn’t make sense.”
She rolled her eyes and shook her head, “Yeah right, it does make sense. All guys are dicks, end of story.”
“Hey!”
“Oh right, I’m sorry, for the exception of you two from time to time. Riku, stop staring at your crotch I didn‘t mean it in a literal sense. Not entirely anyway.”
Riku stared over at Sora and looked around the room, “Are you sure this place is not bugged or something?”
Kairi laughed, which took her long enough to do, “You’re quite the comedian this morning.”
“Aren’t I always?” Riku smirked.
Sora laughed as well and finally brought up the reason he called in the first place. “So, want to go for pizza and ice cream later?”
“Cool beans, but only if Selphie can come along too.”
“Duh.”
“Good, well then I’ll talk to you dudes later.”
“Later Kairi! I’m just going to go on and continue having my way with Riku,” Sora said trying to hold back any laughter from his more than obvious bluff.
A blush formed over her cheeks, and she was so glad it was just a phone conversation. They couldn’t see her face. Two could play that game she thought, “Fine, I’m going to go shower and think up of many naughty things I could do to… What was the new girl‘s name again? Oh yes, Naminé. Mmm, Naminé…”
Sora shook his head because he knew he had heard something completely blasphemous, “Liar. You can’t fool us Kairi, you don’t like chicks. You might come off as a-”
She replied in an ever sweet tone, “Bye, bye.” Kairi hung up and left the rest to the boy’s imaginations. The three of them were always teasing each other in that manner, but in the end they all knew it was just a joke. Kairi liked boys, and Sora as well as Riku liked girls. But sometimes she wasn’t so sure about the boys. Or were her fangirlish fantasies getting to her? Regardless of whichever reason it may be, it would still be awkward. She cannot think of her best friends in that way! If she was never able to crush on them when she was younger, she couldn’t imagine anticipating them doing stuff with each other! She began to laugh hysterically at such thoughts, but soon stopped before her mother woke up again.
“Nonsense.”
After Kairi threw a towel over her shoulder, she took notice of the picture frame on her dresser. It was her two favorite boys and favorite girl, all which had tackled her. She smiled and stared at the firm grip Selphie had on her. For some reason she felt as if she had been claimed as Selphie’s property in some way or other. Although, that was just Kairi letting her own imagination get the best of her. Why would Selphie ever claim Kairi as her own? She shrugged off anymore ridiculous thoughts.
“More and more nonsense.”
Without a second glance more, she finally went to take that long awaited shower.
*****
“Do you think she was bluffing?”
Still sprawled over Sora’s bed Riku arched a brow, “Of course. We joke about stuff like that all the time remember?”
Sora’s nose twitched as he sat on the edge of the bed, “Yeah, you’re right. It’s not like we would ever do any of the things we tease Kairi about… I mean, why would we? That‘s pretty much gross.”
Riku sat up and looked over at his best friend, “Are you trying to say you find me gross?”
“Oh yes Riku, I find you completely disgusting and repulsive. That must be the reason why every chick at school has this mondo crush on you!”
“You sound rather jealous,” He placed his hands just above Sora’s waist and began to tickle him.
“Ah! Stop it… you know I’m… super ticklish!”
Riku snorted and continued tickle torturing him, “That’s precisely why I’m doing it!”
The boy leaned against Riku in a lame attempt to escape the wrath of the tickle monster he had suddenly become. Unfortunately the situation was hopeless. Sora had begun to cough from laughing so much, and that’s when it stopped. Although, the other boy’s hands were still placed over Sora’s waist. The brunet dismissed it, and continued to laugh.
“Had enough?” Riku asked with that same devious smirk plastered on his overly pretty porcelain looking face.
“You’re made of pure evil, know that?”
What happened next made Sora gasp, he felt Riku nuzzle his face over his neck. For whatever reason it may have been, it made the victim of the tickle attack blush. He couldn’t understand why a simple act of affection between two pals made his cheeks so terribly hot.
“If only Kairi could see us now,” Riku teased.
Sora couldn’t find the right words to respond to that. Alright, so they would joke around about doing unmentionable things to each other, but they never acted upon them. Not even as a joke! This was totally new to Sora… He suddenly felt incredibly shy around his best friend, which he knew he shouldn’t.
Since Sora decided to go mute for the time being, Riku mused on, “I bet she’d love this. Or maybe…” Riku then let go of Sora’s waist, and pushed his body forward in order for him to land face first on the mattress.
Another surprised gasp left the oblivious boy’s lips, but he finally found his voice. “Riku… what are you…”
“Oh nothing Sora, I’m just going to-” He paused when he felt Sora squirm beneath him. That and the fact that Riku’s pant pocket had vibrated; so he pulled the phone out of his pocket, and answered it. “What do you want? I’m kinda busy.”
“What? Did I get you at a bad time?”
“As a matter of fact yes, yes you did.”
“Sexing up Sora or something?”
“Fuck off, Axel.”
“Ooh, is that a yes then? Well, either way can you stop molesting him for a couple of minutes or so? I really need to talk to you.”
“Later,” Riku hung up just as fast as he answered the call.
Sora hadn’t heard any of the short conversation. Although assumed it was something interesting considering the colorful words Riku responded back with. He rolled off his bed because he wasn’t sure he could take anymore of that awkward position he was in. After doing so he looked up at Riku and smirked, “What did Axel want? And why is everyone waking up at the crack of dawn on a Saturday?”
“Huh?” Riku hadn’t noticed Sora roll off, until he heard the thump on the floor. He shrugged at his question, “Not sure, I hung up on him before he got to ask.”
The brunet chuckled and stood back up, “Oh okay. Anyways, what are we going to do while we wait for Kairi to finish and stuff?”
Riku had a couple of things in mind, but swatted those ideas away instantly. He wasn’t sure what had come over him a couple of minutes ago. If Axel hadn’t called, he shuddered to think what he would’ve done to an overly vulnerable Sora. Even though he was sure Sora wouldn’t let anything weird happen, but still. He didn’t feel… or he felt something else. He wasn’t quite sure what though.
“Riku? Yoo-hoo!” Sora waved a hand over his friend’s face to snap him out of his reverie.
He caught the boy’s hand in mid-air and smiled, “What?”
“You were full on daydreaming buddy!” Sora chuckled wholeheartedly, “Now the million munny question is… who were you daydreaming of?”
Was the boy telepathic or something? Or did he just plain ol’ wanted to embarrass Riku? Regardless of the situation at hand, Riku played it cool. All he had to do was lie, how hard could it be? He was not about to admit to having just had a semi-naughty thought of his best friend. Never. “Tifa.”
“Oh really?”
Riku nodded, “Yes really. She has legs to die for, and a rack that-”
“Okay, okay I get it! I actually have my eyes on someone too.”
“Hmm, who?”
“She’s just cute, and very hyper.”
“More hyperactive than Selphie? There’s absolutely no such thing, unless it is Selphie.”
Sora felt his cheeks become warm again. He had never realized how ironic that his crush’s name was, Rikku. He coughed and shook his head, “It’s not Selphie.”
“Then who? You know I’m only going to continue pestering you until you tell me.”
“Go on then, but I’m not telling,” Sora stuck his tongue out and placed his hands on his hips. He smiled triumphantly, because for some reason or other he thought he won the argument. But war had just begun as Sora was smacked across the face by one of his very own pillows. His jaw dropped in indignation, and then did the next best thing. “Oh it’s war now Riku! RAH!” He pounced on him, and shoved the same pillow Riku had thrown in his direction, over his face.
Riku effortlessly got rid of the pillow, and pushed Sora off him. He rolled over and ended up above him once again. Although he was not in that position for long, because soon after a wrestling match between the two ensued. Always competing they were, but it was definitely one of the best ways to pass the time. Even if Riku always ended up winning, in due time Sora would become a decent match for Riku. Just not right now…
Both short of breath, the younger of the two was once more pinned down. Riku grinned wide as a devious cat would, while Sora admitted defeat… again. “I win.”
Sora huffed, “When don’t you…”
“Aww, are you getting back into that sore loser phase of yours?”
He attempted to shove him off, but still being short of breath, and really exhausted he hadn’t succeeded. Instead Sora did something he seemed to do quite often, change the subject. “You should call Axel back.”
The older boy’s tousled hair was brushed back by one of the hands that had pinned down his best friend. He noticed the pout beginning to form on Sora’s lips, and couldn’t help but want to kiss them to make everything better. But in fact it would probably make everything much worse. It seemed that in the midst of all the joking around and teasing, something began to surface. Whatever it was, Riku sure as hell was not about to admit anything of the sort. It was just the lighting in the room that’s all. No reason to worry. He got off Sora and nodded, “You’re right, and maybe he’d like to tag along too.”
“Of course he’s going to want to tag along. I was planning to invite my cousin too y’know.”
“Oh dear, and you say I’m evil? You know how he feels about Roxas.”
Sora’s pout immediately transformed into a devious smile, “I know.”
Riku chuckled as he called Axel back, “Wow, this is going to be one very interesting rendezvous. Hey, Sora?”
Still laying on his bed as if dumbstruck he simply mumbled, “Hmm?”
“Your parents sure are heavy sleepers.”
The both of them once again laughed hysterically, because everyone knew in a past life they were a pair of hyenas.
*****
Demyx heard a cell phone ring nearby, but he didn’t have one… so it couldn’t possibly be his. He looked around but didn’t see any signs of such a contraption.
“Hmm, now where could it be?”
He sat down Indian-style on the bedroom floor, and went through the Winnie The Pooh thinking process.
“Think… think… think…”
“Demyx what the hell are you doing?”
Demyx immediately shot up when he spotted his best friend walking back into the room. “Hey Axel! I heard a phone ring, but it’s not mine because well… I don’t have one. And so I looked around the room to see if I could find the source but… I had no such luck,” he finished off with an all too adorable pout.
Axel rolled his eyes, he was quite immune to Demyx’s pouts and stupidities. He reached over to his bed and picked up his mobile phone, “Do you mean this?”
“Oh my yes! That’s what was making the noise! Well, it wasn’t exactly noise I really do love your ring-tone. How was it again?” He cleared his throat and began to make guitar noises, “Trashed and scattered again, I’m feelin’ so low! You waste your breath while aheming with me, my blood is so cold!”
“Cute. But really Dem, the line is ‘You waste your breath while fuckin’ with me. Get it right.”
Demyx looked down and turned a bit pink, “Yeah but um you know how I feel about cussing.”
“Oi… Oh well lookie here.”
“Ooh, what Axel?”
“Riku has decided to call me back. He better have done Sora in every which way, if that’s the case. Honestly, I had only wanted a minute of his time. I doubt it would’ve taken them that long- Oh he left a message, hmm let’s hear it then.”
Demyx made his way closer to Axel and snorted, “What did he say?”
“Uh,” Axel smirked and made his way to get some clothes from his closet. “Demyx buddy, we have some business to attend to. We’ve been invited to pizza and ice cream.”
“Ooh pizza! Can I have pizza with ice cream on top?!” The dirty blond squealed.
Axel cringed, “Eww, I’ve only heard of those wonky combinations from like Scooby-Doo and shit.”
“It’s so yummy though!” Demyx jumped up and down from his excitement.
“Right, sure you can get whatever you want as long as you have the munny for it.”
“YAY!”
Axel would’ve had smacked Demyx over the head from utter annoyance at this point, but lucky for him Riku had given him interesting news. “Now what should I wear to impress my dear Roxas?”
Demyx arched a brow, “Roxas is coming along too?”
“Yep,” He pulled out two pairs of pants, one being a pair of ripped jeans, while the other were a pair of red leather ones. “I think I’ll go with the red ones, what do you think?”
“Hmm,” Demyx felt like a teenage schoolgirl helping out his equally school-girlish best friend to get ready for a hot date. He scratched his head, closed his eyes, and twirled around twice so the finger would automatically point to either piece of clothing. It landed on the pair of leather pants. He smiled, “The red ones!”
“Alright, the red ones they are. Now for the rest of my ensemble.”
“You’re not going to take hours getting dressed are you?”
“Do I look like some lovesick chick about to go on a date of some sort?”
Demyx lifted a finger in declaration, but was cut off before he could actually respond.
“Don’t answer that.”
“Oh don’t worry Axel, you’re going to look mighty fine no matter what you put on!”
“Are you patronizing me?”
“…I’m going to go get something to drink downstairs…”
“Yeah, you go do that.”
And so Demyx left the room, and went downstairs as he said he would. Now Axel could finally finish getting ready in peace, without his imbecile of a friend accusing him of being downright girlie. “Humph, the nerve. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to look good.” He faced his vanity mirror, yes he had a vanity mirror, and began to sort out the makeup he was going to use for his get up today.
“I’m going to look so hot when I’m done. Oh yes Roxas, you’re going to be putty in my hands.”
*****
More A/N: So blame Axel's extra girlish ways on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. I had just finished watching the episode where Hilary is trying to impress this doctor dude. I found it amusing and so... I thought it would be cute if in this fic Axel would be all metrosexual like and stuff. But still with his overly snappy attitude of course! ;P Sorta maybe? I'll keep adding them as they come, but I guess that's it for now. Was it really that bad? Let me know!
And my fanfic Kairi would like to apologize for being so PMSy in this chap. There will be more rules to how to deal with a Kairi in the next one! ;D Here's rule number one for all of those that are maybe wondering... O:)
Rule #1: Never ever mess with a Kairi's woman or she shall bash your brains in. As well as many other unspeakable things. She might even go all Harry Potter on your ass and Avedra Kadavra you. So watch your back. ;D I kinda worry for Irvine in this case. ;)
And just letting you know first page was betaed by my buddy Rose, but in my excitement of wanting to post it at this late hour, the rest hasn't been so. Basically any errors and stuff, sorry I'll try fixing them in the morning!