"Sora's ignoring me again, is he? Well, we'll see what he thinks about this!"

Donald threw his phone to the ground and raised his staff in the air, cackling at what he was about to do.

This would get Sora's attention all right. It would get it for sure.

There was a flash of light. Sora's legs joined together and his body crumpled to the ground. He yelped, and Kairi stared at him as he sprawled out on the sand below her, her eyes wide.

"Sora?"

He likewise looked back at his lower half, his eyebrows knitted together. "What the— oh."

The shallow surf crashed against his big, blue tail.

"You're a merman," she noted, though it kinda went without saying.

Sora rolled over, laid his head against the sand, and groaned. "Again? Seriously?"

This probably should have come as a bigger surprise, but last week he'd turned into a vampire, so all things considered, this wasn't all that weird.

Kairi rested her hands on her hips and leaned over him. "You forgot to call Donald again, didn't you?"

He chuckled and scratched his cheek. "Uh, guilty as charged?"

She shook her head and sighed. "Where's your phone?"

"It's in my pocket— oh."

There was a slight problem with that. He didn't have his shorts right now because he had a big old dolphin tale instead. He didn't even have his shirt. It had disappeared along with the rest of his clothes.

Kairi coughed and cleared her throat. "We can call him on my phone," she said, tearing her eyes away from his chest and tail to look at his face.

"That'd be great."

He watched as she called Donald from her phone, pacing back and forth above him.

"Hey, Donald, it's Kairi. Yup, Sora's a merman right now. He doesn't have his phone on him so I thought I'd give you a call instead." She frowned and clutched the phone tighter. "You want pictures as proof? Uh, okay."

"Pictures this time?! Really?"

Kairi ignored his interruption. "I send you the pictures and you'll turn him human again? Yes, that sounds good. Bye."

She hung up the phone and glanced at him. "Donald wants pictures."

Sora groaned again. "All this punishment for forgetting to return his call. Alright, just get it over with."

Kairi took a few snapshots and sent them to Donald, then tucked her phone into her pocket and sat next to him.

"Now we wait," she said, rocking back and forth on her heels. Sora stared up at her. The dress she was wearing was really cute, blue and white stripes with her red hair tucked behind a matching blue headband.

Her eyes flickered to his tail, then out to sea again. Then she looked back at his tail, then out to sea.

"Can I touch it?" she blurted out.

"Oh, um, sure," he said, not really sure what else to say.

Face flushing, she moved closer. The waves lapped at the hem of her dress and washed over his tail. It had been a while since he'd had one, but the feeling wasn't really that strange or new anymore.

Until Kairi's hand brushed against it. She stared at him, fascinated, her fingers gently stroking his now-rubbery skin.

Why did it feel so… so… good?

"Woah, cool," she said, a smile spreading across her face. "I always did like mermaid stories. Remember those games we used to play when we were kids?"

"Y-yeah."

"Where I was a mermaid and you and Riku were sailors?"

"Uh-huh."

She grinned. "Who would've thought you'd be the merman instead?"

She turned her attention back to his tail and ran her fingers all over it, giggling when he squirmed, grinning when he let out a soft sigh, her eyes wide in wonder at it all. She added her other hand to the mix, and Sora found himself wishing he didn't have a tail right now. What would it feel like for her to actually—

There was a flash of magic that blinded him for a few seconds. When he could see again, he was wearing his shirt, he was wearing his shorts, his tail was gone, and Kairi's hands were resting on his calves.

Her face turned bright red as their eyes met, and she quickly backed away from him.

"H-hey look, Donald came through," she said, tucking her hair behind her ear and avoiding his eyes.

"Yeah." A lot of awkward things went through his head that he didn't dare say out loud. Kairi, please touch me again sounded wrong no matter how he tried to word it.

So he didn't, just stood and brushed the sand off himself and helped Kairi to her feet.

"Shall we?"

Donald swiped through the photos Kairi had given him and sighed.

"Boring, boring, boring. I see Kairi still hasn't gotten the hint." He tapped his beak. "Hmmm… Let's see… next time…"

He thought of their recent journeys, and inspiration struck. "I got it!"

Lifting his wand again, he cackled to himself over the next transformation.

Kairi was sure to like this one.

A/N: Alja and I were talking about Kairi seeing Sora's merman form, and soon we had a whole slew of ideas about Kairi seeing Sora's other transformations. This story is dedicated to her as a thank you for the inspiration :)

I'm hoping to get a continuation written soon to share with you all. Hope you're enjoying it so far!

(Also, I promise I will look at reviews when I can, I'm just in hermit mode for now to avoid KH3 spoilers!)