There were some minutes of silence.
“…On that island everything began. I want to go.”
Kairi and Riku looked at Sora who wore a exigent expression on his kindly featured face as he gazed over the great ocean.
A gentle breeze arose which streamed through his brown shaggy hair, the smell of the salty sea filled his nose.
The sun reflecting in his clear blue eyes seemed like burning flames of determination. As for Sora and the other two, this island was important – there everything bagan, darkness against light. The birth of the one with the strongest weapon of all – the one who is destined to hold the keyblade.
Battles ensued, decisions had to be made in an instant and they needed to know for what they were fighting for.
And at the end they knew.
“Let’s go there tonight! Are you coming?!“, Sora grinned at his two friends in that carefree way he was known for.
The red haired girl and Riku relaxed and nodded back.
„Yeah, I want to go, too!“, Kairi exclaimed, raising her right arm into the air for emphasizes.
“Right!!“, Sora, too, raised up his hand alongside Kairi’s.
And in this moment Riku found out again why he thought he was already more mature than the other two. Heh, he thought, they get too easily excited, just like children do…But it’s actually really cute…heh.
The silver haired, more-mature boy crossed his arms over his chest and grinned to himself as he heard Sora call out to him: “Hey, Riku! A bit more enthusiasm here, please! We are going to the island!”
He looked at Sora and then at Kairi, both still had their hands in the air.
He looked once more.
And still looked.
Sora grew impatient: “C’mon! Put your ha-…” “I’m not doing something childish like that.”, Riku shot back immediately and cut Sora’s sentence short.
“Aww, Riku, come on, just do it. You’ll see it’s fun!”, Kairi smiled at him.
He knew it was childish and that he was not gonna do it… but he also knew Kairi and Sora could be very persistent and if he didn’t do something they’d be standing there the whole night.
So he sighed softly and raised is one hand just a little bit to show the other two that he actually was excited to go there again, but is not going to show it as much as they did. He just wasn’t the type for that. He knew Sora and Kairi knew how he ticked as well… but they seemed to have fun trying to make him show some more of his emotions and not-so-mature-site of his from time to time.
He had to smile at that.
“Well, I think that is the closes to an enthusiastic reaction we’ll get from Riku, ne?”, the brown haired boy grinned.
Kairi nodded: “Now, was it that big of a deal, Riku?”
Quickly the silver haired guy turned around, just to not let them see the tiny flush he knew was spreading over his cheeks.
As the other two noticed what was wrong with him, cheerful laughter filled the air. And Riku did, too.
“Woah! Now they’ve gone rally crazy! You hear that?“, a deep voice errupted behind them and the laughter stopped. The three of them then spun around to see who was there.
“Yeah well, I kinda knew they were some crazy aliens from Jupiter to conquer the world!! Oh nooo, Wakka, our life is over now!” Another voice added comically.
“Yeah right, Tidus! We have your ass first, heh!“ Sora answered as comically and made a grimace to show he was a monster.
He then stomped up to the blonde standing beside his best friend, Wakka, and tried to catch him. But Tidus ran away just as Sora was about to grasp his arm, and grinned broadly.
“Nahnah, you alien never get to catch me! I’ll become the best blitzball player the planet got to offer!! There’s just no chance for you to beat me! And there’s no fucking way you get my ass, you faggot alien!! Ha!”
Wakka then walked up to Riku and Kairi and watched a few minutes how Sora and Tidus played hide-and-seek, now and again he grinned when Sora or Tidus both stumbled in the white sand of the beach and dared to fall straight onto their faces.
“I don’t believe they’re sixteen. They act like five.” Kairi noted exasperated, but was smiling nonetheless.
Thereupon Riku snorted audibly, remembering the situation just a few minutes ago where she and Sora had raised their hands into the air.
After ten minutes of trying to catch Tidus, Sora gave up and the two came back grinning nonetheless.
The red haired Blitzball-player tilted his head to look at Riku and called his name once. But the silver haired boy was busy smiling at his brown haired friend who was grinning back, arms crossed behind his head.
When Wakka called out to him again, Riku looked at him and gave a nod to show he was now listening.
“Well yeah…I was just asking myself…if, well…if you could help me and Tidus…like in tutoring? We both haven’t quite gotten the best grades in last math test, you know…and…”, he trailed of, nervously scraping the back of his head.
Tidus finished for him, totally not being ashamed about his miserable notes: “He meant we are in need of your help, ‘cause we totally have no clue how to go about those shitty formulas, right? We both had not much time to learn these past three month, we are preparing for our big match against the guys from Luca, you know! We are so going to kick their asses!!” The blonde teen made a pose and a victory sign, at the same time grinning broadly.
“How cool! Good luck with that! Don’t embarrass yourselves and our island!° Sora exclaimed.
„Hn, as if! We’re gonna win!“, Tidus answered back confidently.
“Good luck!“, Kairi said, smiling at Wakka and then at Tidus. “Thanks, Kairi!!“
“So, back to the tutoring thing…”, Riku began, looking at Wakka, “did I get it right? You want me to tutor you two in math?”
“Well, yeah.”, Wakka answered, nodding with his head. “You can do it right? Please help us, if not we are not gonna make it this year!!”, he begged with his hands crossed, looking at Rikus handsome face with big, brown puppy eyes.
“Pretty pleaaaaaase!!”, Tidus came next to him, also giving him the puppy eyes.
The silver haired boy made a disgusted face and turned away.
“You two wouldn’t be the only ones not going to make it this year without my help, right Sora?”, he turned back and grinned at his brown haired friend.
“Yeah, I am very worried, Sora. You have to work hard with Riku, okay?” Kairi looked into his big blue eyes, asking him to make an effort to learn harder to make it trhough this year. Sora’s weak points were English and Geography.
