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Spring on Destiny Islands brings lots of cute, cute things for Sora and his friends...

Bunnies

Spring on Destiny Islands was barely distinguishable from summer. All anyone really noticed was a sudden overabundance of new life – plant, animal and baby. In fact there were a lot of new babies around this year, thanks to young Mrs. Aoki who had miraculously given birth to quadruplets (much to everyone's amazement, for it was a first in Destiny Islands' history) and Mrs. Zaki who had brought identical twin girls into the world. There had been numerous other births, the total number of babies reaching ten.

The air was constantly alive with the whistles of birds and the smells of freshly blooming flowers and newly grown grass. All in all, it was a beautiful time of year.

Sora, however, was only really worried about one thing: getting lots of sleep during the school holidays. After all, it took a lot of energy to be him. All those early mornings on school days were so hard. Even his Mom was kind enough to let him doze on through the morning when he was off school.

Kairi, however, had other plans. Sora was still snoozing under his blankets when she went barging into his messy room, practically dancing with overexcitement.

"Sora, Sora you've gotta come see what Riku and I found!"

But Sora, who considered ten o'clock in the morning to be an ungodly hour, muttered something that could've been "Go away Kairi" and huddled deeper in his sheets.

"You are such a lazy bum! Come on Sora, you've gotta see them!"

His response was arguably: "I don't care" but Kairi had a hard time understanding words that were filtered through a blanket.

Riku came in, the newly thirteen-year-old boy sighing dramatically at the sight of the lump on Sora's bed. "Sora you'll never beat me if you just stay in bed all day."

In one move, Sora was out of bed and standing tall. Clad in red and white pyjamas, he promptly marched his two friends from the room and shut the door. Some minutes (and a lot of noise) later, Sora emerged dressed for the day in khaki shorts and a white t-shirt with a bright yellow star on it. "So," he asked as he pulled on his boots. "What did you find?"

"Bunnies!" Kairi squealed. "Cute, fluffy pink bunnies!"

"Pink?" Sora repeated, following his friends downstairs. He grabbed a red jacket and left the house with Kairi and Riku. "I didn't think bunnies came in pink."

"Pink and blue," Riku corrected.

"You're both lying," Sora declared. "Bunnies don't come in those colours!"

"We'll show you," Riku retorted, taking the lead as the trio walked up the hill to the island's biggest park. "We found them under a tree."

"Cute little baby ones!" Kairi's voice was getting even higher pitched with excitement. She danced ahead of Riku, jumping up and down and waving her hands. "I've never seen anything so cute and tiny and fluffy and oooooooooooh they're so soft and I just wanna take them all home with meeeeeeeeeee!"

Riku and Sora shared an exasperated look. "Girls," they sighed together.

The park was full of other children, running around or lounging in the sun. It was a huge area, a playground to the north and a picnic area to the south. Everyone was enjoying the fresh morning air. Birds flitted around, chasing each other and twittering loudly. Sora ducked a couple to avoid having his eyes poked out. Why did birds have to fly around all suicidal like that in the spring?

"Come on Sora!" Kairi called, bouncing up and down.

Keeping an eye out for dive-bombing birds, Sora resumed walking. The whole park was lined with blossoming plant-life, and it was a secluded area behind a cluster of trees in the western corner that Kairi and Riku led Sora to.

"Look," Kairi managed to whisper, pulling back a branch.

Huddled together in one big pink and blue pile, was a group of the cutest bunnies anyone had ever seen. Sora could now fully appreciate Kairi's excitable state. The little creatures were just so tiny and fluffy! Not shy, the bunnies began to hop over one another as the three children sat down and reached out to stroke them. There were seven in total – four pink and three blue bunnies – and all of them seemed rather attracted to Sora, for the boy suddenly found himself being hopped upon.

"You must smell nice to rabbits," Riku commented.

"Aw how come they don't like me that much?" Kairi grumbled as some of the bunnies began settling down on Sora's lap while others attempted to bounce up his arms.

"Everybody loves me," Sora said, leaning back with a grin. A pair of bunnies began hopping on his stomach. "I must make a great…. A… great… A-a-a-aCHOO!"

Sora's sneeze startled the bunnies but all were too content to go shooting off. Soon they were either nestling back down in his lap or continuing their climb up his body.

"Someone must be talking about you," Kairi commented, reaching over and aiding the pink rabbit that was about to make the leap onto Sora's face. "There you go little one."

"Ah! That tickles!" Sora laughed as the bunny's tail swept his face. He sneezed again and this time the bunny on his face did skitter off, finding sanctuary in Kairi's arms. "Mom must be telling her friends about me."

"Yeah," Riku said, picking out a blue bunny to hold. "I bet she's saying," and here Riku attempted to imitate Sora's Mom, "Ooh that son of mine he's a no good trouble maker! His teachers are all mad at him and he's always in detention! And he's so…"

"Lazy!" Kairi declared, giggling. "Oh Sora don't look at me like that! It's the truth and you know it!"

"I'm not a troublemaker and I'm not lazy," Sora mumbled, wiping his nose on the back of his hand. "I got up didn't I?"

"Yeah, before noon. It's a first," Riku said.

Sora stroked some of the bunnies behind their ears. "I'm on holiday you know. I can do whatever I want, whenever I want."

"That's code language for: 'No one can stop me being lazy'," Riku mock-whispered to Kairi.

"I am not l-l-l-l-AHCOO." Sora made a face. "I think I'm allergic to being awake this early." Then a blue bunny hopped onto his face and hid it from view.

"The bunnies don't like it when you pout," Kairi said.

"Yeah, they're embarrassed to sit in the lap of a boy who looks like a girl," Riku added.

Sora placed the bunny on his head. "I do not look like a girl!"

"Yeah, Riku, don't insult girls. Sora's way too weird to be one of us."

Sora sniffed. "Stop picking on me!"

The three returned their attention to the bunnies, four of whom had now apparently fallen asleep in Sora's lap while the other three were held by the children, content to have their soft fur stroked.

"Say, where are their parents?" Sora suddenly asked.

Always one with a tendency for melodrama, Kairi wailed: "Oh no! What if they died and left all the adorable bunnies alone! We'll have to take them home with us!"

"Kairi don't be silly, their parents didn't die," Riku said. "They probably just went out to get some food for the family."

"What do bunnies eat?" Sora asked.

"Plants?" Riku suggested.

"Carrots," Kairi added. "Oh, and lettuces."

"Where would rabbits get that stuff?" Sora scoffed. "It's not like they can go in the shops." He sneezed again. "And no one leaves that stuff lying around."

Behind the three, a bush began to rustle. They paid it no heed. Bushes rustled all the time on a spring day like this, what with all the birds and the bees.

"Have you caught a cold Sora?" Kairi asked.

"Nah. It's all this spring air getting up my nose."

"More like all this fresh air," Riku corrected. "You practically live in bed."

"That's not – achoo! – true."

The bushes moved again.

"Sora, if it weren't for your Mom, Kairi and me you'd never get out of bed. You'd just lie there and vegetate."

"Ooh, vegetate! Big word Riku!" And Kairi applauded his intelligence.

"Thanks."

Sora ignored the pair and let the bunny in his hands join his siblings who still dozed on his lap. "I wish I could have a pet bunny."

"Then why don't you pick one and take it home?" Kairi asked, placing her pink bunny on Sora's lap as well.

"And split it up from its brothers and sisters? That's just mean."

"Do they have bunnies in the pet shop?" Kairi asked.

"Probably," Riku replied, returning the final bunny to Sora's collection. "But you should probably ask your parents before you go and buy one."

"Oh I will," Kairi said, grinning with a wicked gleam in her eye.

"That's code for: I'm gonna beg, cry and scream 'til they give in and get me one," Sora translated.

"Ah," Riku nodded. "I thought as much."

"Hey!" Kairi protested. "That's not…"

The girl trailed off. Something… no, two somethings, emerged from the bushes.

"Oh look, bigger bunnies!" Kairi said. "Ooh, they must be the little guys' parents. Hi there! You have very cute babies!"

"Uh…" Riku shuffled nervously. "They don't look too happy to see us."

"Their eyes are all red," Kairi said.

The bigger blue rabbit sprung forwards, teeth bared viciously.

"Wait a minute…"

Kairi and Sora looked at Riku, Sora sneezing in the interval between Riku's 'wait a minute' and his…

"Aren't these those rabbits that attack humans?"

"What?" Sora and Kairi said together.

"Yeah, I just remembered." Riku eased to his feet as the mother bunny began to look ferocious. "They attack anything that comes between them and their young. They'll kill if they have to."

Kairi tried to laugh but it didn't sound right. "You're joking…"

"I'm not, I swear it." Riku's face was dead serious. He looked at Sora, who still had all the baby bunnies dozing in his lap. "Put. Them. Down," he stage-whispered. "Back. Away. Slowly."

The bunnies were staring at Sora with something akin to murderous intent. He gulped nervously. Kairi stood up and backed away, standing beside Riku who looked like he was getting ready to attack if the bunnies tried anything. Sora still seemed to be in a state of disbelief, thinking (hoping) that Riku was once again making up stories. But when the father rabbit began to rapidly cross the distance between himself and Sora, the boy knew his friend wasn't trying to fool him.

Sora began placing the dozing baby bunnies back on the grass, rattling off hurried apologies to the parents and hoping that rabbit ears had the ability to comprehend human language.

"I'm sorry!"

Two babies back on the ground.

"I wasn't gonna hurt them or let Kairi take them away."

"Hey!"

Three. Four…

"See? They're all fine!"

Five. Daddy Rabbit was now leaping at Sora, its huge front teeth prepared to deliver a nasty bite.

Six…

"Sorry! We won't trouble you again. We'll just be going now, okay? See, look, all the baby bunnies are fine…"

Seven! That was it, all the bunnies were back on the grass and looking up at Sora with confusion showing on the cute, sleepy faces. Their parents, however, did not seem appeased.

"Let's get out of here," Kairi said, still sounding a little annoyed that Sora had involved her in the apology.

Sora jumped up… well he tried. Halfway through sitting and standing, an almighty sneeze shook Sora's whole body and he overbalanced, tipping forward and into the rabbit's clutches. He got a nasty bite on the hand before he successfully scrambled to his feet, jumped over the irate rabbit and rejoined his friends.

"Sora!" Kairi cried, anger forgotten as she saw his dripping wound. "Are you all right?"

"Yeah I…"

"No time for that!" Riku burst out. "Run for it!"

Sora was stunned to find the adult rabbits still chasing after him and his friends. Then Riku's hand had clamped around his wrist and Sora was being tugged away at top speed, Kairi struggling to keep up on Riku's other side. And the rabbits kept coming, focused on the three and nobody else. The other people in the park thought it was a very odd sight to see three kids being chased by two rabbits…

"How did you not remember this before we all sat there!" Sora demanded as he was yanked along by Riku. "I don't wanna be killed by a rabbit!"

"It just came back to me."

"You're no use at all!"

"Hey, I got us running didn't I? You were the one just sitting there!"

"Well why not? Whoever got attacked by rabbits!"

"Uh…"

Riku and Sora glared at Kairi.

"B-but…"

"You knew!" Sora and Riku hollered together.

"W-well s-sorta yeah but I thought it was just a silly story – you know what Selphie's like…"

"Yeah, likely to get bitten by anything 'cause she's such a pain," Riku muttered.

"So I didn't really believe her…"

There was still blood oozing down from where Sora had been bitten. Shaking the hot liquid away, Sora turned and saw the rabbits still chasing, faces furious. "I can't believe it…" Not wanting to meet those teeth again, Sora tried to run even faster. "I can't believe I'm being chased by rabbits!" And he sneezed again. "Ugh."

Kairi ignored him. "And the babies were so cute! How was I to know the adults would really attack humans!"

"Kairi?"

"Yes Sora?"

"You're not allowed near animals ever again."

"But I…!"

"GET DOWN!"

Riku threw all of them to the ground, and the rabbits went flying overhead. All three barely avoided a scathing attack from claws and teeth that were incredibly sharp. Now placed in front of the children, the rabbits were looking triumphant somehow, their backs arched and their teeth bared. They seemed to think they had won…

"What do we do?" Kairi whispered. "Go back the way we came?"

"I dunno," Riku whispered back. "We need to get out of the park, especially if they're gonna keep chasing us. What if the rabbits go for the younger kids?"

"How about we split up?" Kairi replied quietly. "There're only two of them after all…"

"Sora what do you think… Ah Sora, what are you…!"

Sora, who had been looking remarkably thoughtful until now, marched forward resolutely. "I am not being chased by rabbits!"

"Sora be careful!" Kairi cried out. "You already got bitten once!"

"They are rabbits! I'm a human! Look at the size of them!" He reached out with a foot, his boot hovering over the female rabbit. "I'm way bigger than her!" He stretched out his hands, one clean and the other bloody. "This is crazy!"

And he plucked the psycho parental rabbits off the ground by the scruffs of their necks.

Then…

"You two are AWFUL parents!" He lectured the irate pair, both of whom were squirming in his grip. "What kind of example are you setting for your baby bunnies huh!" He sneezed loudly, the booming 'ACHOO!' somehow shocking the rabbits into submission, both now looking rather cowed. "I'm taking you back to your children! You should be ashamed!"

"Uh… uh…" But Kairi couldn't think of anything to say as her brown-haired friend marched away, sneezing as he went, with a rabbit in each hand.

"Kairi…" Riku's voice was utterly deadpan.

"Yes?" Her tone matched his.

"Are we watching the same thing?"

"Sora just told the rabbits off…"

"…and they listened."

"I think so…"

"Um…"

"Yeah."

Riku and Kairi looked at each other. They blinked. "Huh," they surmised.

Meanwhile, Sora deposited the rabbits back with the baby bunnies, all of whom gathered once again around Sora's feet.

"Ah, sorry, I can't stay," he said to the little ones, noticing the irked glares he was receiving from their parents. "Grow up big and strong okay? Just… you know… don't chase people… Bye!"

A few minutes later he rejoined his friends and they opted to go down to the beach, which was as far as they could get from the mad rabbits without going to one of the other islands.

"Hey Sora," Kairi said as they sat with their feet in the cool surf. "You stopped sneezing."

"Oh, yeah."

"Guess your mom stopped talking about you," Riku commented.

"Huh?" Sora looked at his friend for a moment. "Oh! Nah, it wasn't Mom after all. Didn't I tell you? I'm allergic to rabbits."

Riku frowned. "Since when?"

"Since always," Sora replied. "Yup, we found out when I brought the school's pet rabbit home for the weekend. Mom had to take it to the teacher's house 'cause I couldn't stop sneezing."

"And yet you let them climb all over you," Riku pointed out.

"I told you, they liked me. I like them too but an allergy's and allergy."

"…And you gave the parents a real good telling off…"

"Yeah, I know. Weird aren't I?" Sora grinned.

The End

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