Sora sat on the beach munching some blackberries and dropping those which didn't make it into his mouth down his shirt front. Honestly, that boy could sit and eat buckets full of blackberries if he only had the resources. Yes, there would be retribution a few hours later, but who cares?! Blackberries are…are…BLACKBERRIES! That is the ultimate compliment you can give anything, blackberry or not.

He picked the small, heaven berries out of his lap and popped them into his gullet, taking the time to pop each of the little seeds between his front teeth. It was like a dissection.

Riku walked along a bit later with Kairi in tow, and both laughed when they beheld Sora with a blue-stained mouth.

"Watch out, Kairi, he'll be after your raspberries once he finishes," the older boy scoffed.

Sora spat his mouthful of seeds at Riku, "You know I hate raspberries! Almost as much as you hate your new haircut!"

Riku glowered, remembering all too well a certain incident involving a certain Nobody and certain flaming weapons. As weird as it was, Sora was sad to see Axel disappear after he was defeated. Even though he was an enemy, there had just been something likeable about that red-haired pyromaniac.

"Don't speak of it," Riku enunciated.

"Aww, come on, Riku," Kairi huffed, "Boy's aren't supposed to have longer hair than girls, anyway."

"But Riku's hair's always been long," Sora mused, trying to remember if Riku had ever had short hair before and eating some more blackberries. Nope. Not until recently. And it technically still wasn't short like a normal boy haircut. Sora pulled at his front spike, the one that made it hard to see above his head at certain angles.

"You need a haircut, Sora," Kairi laughed.

"Have you ever tried cutting my hair? Get it wrong and it looks like I made Leon angry," Sora grinned as he took another handful of blackberries from the bag at his side.

Kairi laughed, "I really should get to know that guy if he can scare the likes of you, Mr. Take-down-Ansem-and-Xemnas-and-any-number-of-big-Heartless."

"Hey, I was there, too," Riku huffed, a smile touching his face as he crossed his arms.

Sora tossed more blackberries into his mouth and stood up, bringing his bag of berries with him, "O'Coursh!" he swallowed, "I'd be dead if you weren't there to help with Xemnas and lots of other stuff, though you really pack a punch when you don't want to help me," Sora gave Riku an evil grin. Except it's Sora. So the evil grin came out as a normal grin with raised eyebrows, lowered eyelids, and a strained throat. Kairi poked his Adam's apple and he coughed.

Sora ate some more blackberries.

"You're going to make yourself sick again," Kairi sighed.

"But they're so good!" Sora and Riku said in unison. Sora gave Riku a withering look. Riku shrugged.

"I can't help it you're predictable."

"I'm not predictable," Sora and Kairi said.

"…No blackberries for you," Sora took off in the direction of the boats to get back to town.

Kairi followed, laughing, with Riku hot on her heels.