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Ordinary Adventures

Chapter 1: Raspberry-Paopu Smoothie

For the past month, ever since Kairi first started working here in the café, she spent her four-days-a-week refilling glasses and bussing dishes. If she had wanted to be a maid, Kairi would have taken the house-cleaning job at the Highwind house. It paid a good dollar twenty an hour more than this one did.

'But no, I wanted to meet people,' Kairi thought snidely as she wiped off a table. 'I wanted to talk to the mainlanders who come here for the surfing. I wanted to serve food.'

The bell jingled as the front door opened. A youth swaggered into the almost empty café. Kairi grimaced when she picked up a half eaten baloney, mustard, and mayo sandwich.

'Gross,' Kairi mentally moaned as she dumped the sandwich on the trash, 'Irvine seems to think I'll scare his precious customers away. Sora gets to handle coffee and customers at the coffee hut, but all I get to handle is trash.'

When she felt a hand touch her shoulders she screamed and dropped her bin full of plates. 'There goes my paycheck,' she thought sadly.

Kairi turned around with a pained expression. A slightly older girl with black hair and a jack-o-lantern grin carved on her face stood there. Kairi wasn't certain what the girl was doing there, Irvine had put up the closed sign so that he could run home and give his cat its shots.

"Hiya," chirped the girl. She had a headband on and a black shirt that said 'BITE ME'.

"We're closed," Kairi blurted.

"Why?" she asked as she tilted her head to the side. This gave Kairi a nice view of her tanned neck. She figured that the girl spent a lot of time in the sun, but not here on the islands since Kairi didn't recognize her.

"Because my boss had to give his diabetic cat its shots?" Kairi asked more than answered.

"Excellent," the girl said and sat down in a window booth. "Can I get a menu?" she asked.

"Excuse me?" asked Kairi, surprised. She had just told the girl they were closed and she wasn't really certain to do with this girl who didn't seem to care.

"Oh, is this one of those places where all of the items are written on a blackboard? These islands have so many places like that. I love them because they're so different from anything back home."

"You do?" Kairi politely asked as she handed the girl a menu.

"I'm Yuffie by the way. I'm here for the surfing competition," Yuffie babbled as she searched over the menu.

"You're in the surfing comp?" Kairi asked excitedly, "Not many girls are in it, so it's neat you made the cut. My friend Riku made it in."

"Rikku?" asked Yuffie excitedly. She put down the menu and looked at Kairi. "I can't believe she didn't mention she knew anyone as cute as you. That bitch left me out of the loop."

"What?" asked Kairi, confused. She decided to clarify, " My Riku is a guy. He is about a head taller than I am and is definitely male."

"How did you find out that?" she asked teasingly.

"I accidentally walked in on him when he was in the bathroom when I was eight," Kairi said with a blush.

Yuffie laughed for a bit before saying, "Well I guess that it can't by my Rikku. Ya see, I was thinking of this girl I know when you said Riku. Sorry Two-K for calling you a bitch," she shouted out even though this 'Rikku' was nowhere near them. Yuffie beamed at Kairi and said, "I'll take a raspberry-paopu smoothie please."

Kairi started fiddling with the blender. She had seen Irvine make smoothies a million times, so she figured she could make one. The redhead tossed in some ice, sugar, and tossed in some fresh raspberries.

"Hold on a sec," she said, "I need to pick the paopu."

"Pick it?" Yuffie asked incredulously.

"Of course, do you think we, the only place in the world that the paopu fruit grows, use canned crap?" scoffed Kairi.

She went out the back while Yuffie trailed behind her. As Kairi started to climb the paopu tree out back, she heard a wolf whistle. She glared at the girl behind her.

"Now this is service," Yuffie said with a grin, "I love seeing people work for my dollar. Can I have the big juicy one?"

Kairi plucked the big juicy fruit that Yuffie had pointed to and slid down the tree. "Its not my fault that I'm short," she grumbled to herself.

"Yes it is," Yuffie crowed as she followed Kairi back into the café. "You didn't drink enough milk as a child so your bones didn't get enough calcium to grow big and strong to make you tall."

"I could lock you out of here. And I will if you keep teasing me."

Yuffie snorted and waved one of her hands. "Your boss wouldn't be happy when you do that. Especially when I pick the locks. Besides I like short people. I'm one, you're one, there are lots of them. We're not short, we're travel sized."

Kairi felt her cheeks heat up at the teasing. She silently washed off the paopu and dropped it in the blender. Kairi put the top on, gave it a 90º twist and turned the blender on.

"Remember, you can't share this smoothie with anyone," Kairi said. Yuffie gave her an inquiring look, "Well you know, the legend of the paopu fruit."

Yuffie gave her a blank look.

Kairi sighed and rubbed her brow. "Pull up a seat," she said. Yuffie jumped onto a bar stool on the opposite side of the counter from Kairi. "Okay," started Kairi, "Supposedly if two people share a paopu fruit, their destines are intertwined forever. It's why the Destiny Islands are called Destiny Islands. Only people who are truly in love should share them since they really change your life."

"So it's a marriage fruit?" Yuffie asked.

"It's more than that, it's a way of making certain that even in your next life, you still run into that true love," Kairi said before shrugging, "That is, if you believe the legend. I however don't since I think you only get one time around."

"Well, whatever else, it's a neat story," Yuffie said thoughtfully. "I think I saw a silver haired guy sharing one of these star fruits with a spiky brunette kid. They must be really in love. Either that or really stupid."

Kairi's eyes widened, 'Sora and Riku are… together? Why the hell didn't they tell me? Did they think they'd hurt my feelings, the things they've never cared about in the past, because they loved each other and not me? Or do they think I'd throw a hissy fit about them being gay and not telling me? Damn right I'd throw a hissy fit, I could have gone cruising with them for… well, men! Yes, sexy men! With black surfer hair and… and… umm abs of steel! Yes, hot sexy black-haired surfer men with abs of steel!'

As Kairi was lost in her 'deep' thoughts, Yuffie poked her. "Umm, cute nameless girl," the surfer started, "Your eye is twitching."

The girls heard a thunk, saw something white zoom by and were then covered with pink slush. Apparently Kairi hadn't screwed the lid on tight enough and they were now covered in cold ooze. Yuffie wiped the stuff off her face and shoved it into Kairi's. The girls stood there in silence as the smoothie dribbled down everything.

With a shriek, the girls chased each other around the café. The bell tingled and the front door opened. Kairi ran smack dab into her boss.

"What the hell is going on?" yelled Irvine.

Kairi quavered for a few moments before Yuffie saved her. "I'm really sorry Mr. Boss Man," she said, "I came in here even though it was closed and forced this really gorgeous girl to make me a smoothie. But then she told me about the paopu legend and the destiny thingy, which was bad because I was gonna share it with Squallykins and that would be bad since I like girls, although Squallykins is cool in a badass way. So I grabbed the smoothie making machine and tried to stop it only I got the top of instead so the stuff went spew!" Yuffie waved her arms in the air while she told this story.

Irvine stared at the girls. "Kairi, start cleaning up this mess," he said. She quickly started because the redhead was happy to still have her job. "I'm going to get the world famous Yuffie Kisaragi's autograph!" he squealed happily.

By the time Kairi had finished cleaning up the café, her shift was over. Irvine was still fussing over the 'famous Japanese surfer'. The two girls left the café for the boardwalk. They drifted toward the beach before ending up on the docks.

"Thanks for saving my butt back there," Kairi said as they hung their feet off the dock.

"Hey, you're cute," Yuffie said with a grin, "and I mean it was my fault, so no problem. Only I didn't pay for my smoothie. You won't get your pay docked will ya?"

Kairi laughed, "Irvine was so happy to meet his favorite surfer he nearly wet himself. I doubt he even remembers the mess."

Both girls laughed. Yuffie grinned at Kairi again and Kairi smiled back. Kairi thought it was pretty nice to hang out with another girl for once instead of Riku and Sora. 'Especially if they're going to ditch me to suck face in secret,' she though darkly.

"Hey," Yuffie said as she poked Kairi in the arm and out of her dark thoughts, "I have to get going now even though I had a great time with you. Squallykins, Two-K, and the others are most likely worried about me since I've been gone for hours. I swear, even though I'm nineteen, they treat me like a baby."

Kairi was surprised that she didn't want Yuffie to leave. "But-"

"No buts," cut off Yuffie as she stuck a finger to the redhead's lips. "Come on and cheer me on in the competition tomorrow. I'll even buy lunch."

She then leaned in and kissed Kairi. Yuffie's lips were dry and the kiss was chaste, but it left the sixteen-year-old spluttering.

Yuffie stood up and brushed off her shorts. "Well, I'm off," she said with a mock salute.

"I can't believe you just did that!" yelled Kairi.

"What, didn't you like it? I thought I felt signals."

"That isn't the point! It was my first kiss! You stole it!" accused Kairi as she blushed. She was more than a little embarrassed that her first kiss had gone to some girl she had just met and she was trying not to cry.

Yuffie grinned again and cocked her head. "I always wanted to be someone's first," she said shyly, "My first kiss went to a guy who… ahh you don't wanna hear about that." She pulled out a card and scribbled something on the back. The girl then opened Kairi's hand, stuck the card in and then closed it. "Call me!" Yuffie shouted over her shoulder as she ran off.

Kairi stared at Yuffie's retreating form before she looked at the card. It read:

Congratulations, you have been robbed by

The Great Ninja Yuffie Kisaragi

Japan's best female surfer

Tokyo U attendee

Yuffie had written her cell phone number with the words "call me" on the back. Kairi stuffed the card in her pocket and when home. She took a shower with her clothes on and then went to bed.

The next morning she woke up to find herself in wet clothes on her bedroom floor. She sat there dumbly for a few moments before she fumbled with her pockets and pulled out the soggy card. The ink was runny, but she could still make out the number. She grinned and thought, 'Fate has other plans for me than those I had expected. I guess I'm not cheering for Riku this year.'

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