The way I woke up today was a flip off the bed. I groaned and glared at whoever did it and saw that it was Riku, his arm in a cast. My eyes widened.
"Riku?! You're out of the hospital already?!" I asked, getting up as he nodded.
"Yup. Now get dressed. We're going home and we're going to go and find that locket of yours." He explained, as I nodded.
"R-right...!" I said, as he sighed.
"We need to find this locket, especially since you talked about this thing pretending to be Kairi..." He muttered, as I nodded.
"Yeah, seriously..."
"I think I'll call it...Otome." He said, as I looked up from looking for clothes and at him.
"W-what?! Why that?!" He shrugged.
"Well, I remembered Kairi telling me about these games on her trip to Wutai once. They called them Otome games, and they were these things where the reader, typically a girl, would end up reading it and have these guys fall in love with her. Sometimes the occasional girl too, apparently. They'd choose one guy and pick all these different options in order to get this guy to fall in love with them. And, I got to thinking, since this is like one of your fanfictions, which typically include guys falling in love with them, and this thing gave you a choice, Otome seemed to fit." I blinked at the logic, and nodded, looking through my clothes again.
"Yeah...Otome is a good name...alright. Otome it is. Better than calling Otome 'Not-Kairi'." He let out a laugh.
"Right. I'm going back home. I'll meet you there." He said, as I heard the door close behind me. I turned and caught a key on the bed and knew that it was to the house.
......
I walked in through the door and closed it behind me.
"I'm back!" I said, as Bartz walked in and smiled, Boco following close behind...wait, Boco?! I heard Riku sigh irritably.
"Bartz, get your freakin' Chocobo out of my house!" He shouted at him, walking downstairs. Bartz blinked.
"What? Boco's well trained! We've gone over this!" Riku glared.
"I don't care if the fucking bird is trained, Bartz, I don't want him in my house!" Bartz crossed his arms.
"You're just jealous because Boco is way more awesome than you'll ever be!" He said, as Riku sighed.
"Whatever...I'm going out, {Name}'s coming with me. When I come home, I expect that damn bird to be out of my fucking house!" Bartz crossed her arms.
"You didn't have a problem with him before in the hospital room..." He muttered, walking with Boco as Riku sighed.
"That guy...anyway, sorry about that. C'mon, we gotta go look for this locket. We don't want another Otome incident happening again." He said, as I nodded, walking out with him. He paused turning.
"We'll be back! Don't let that damn bird in my room!" He said, before finally walking out.
"I think we should start at the shops. I heard you went to this party from Vanille, so, you'd been there." I nodded.
"Right...but, stores would be the best place to look. I mean...they're stores."
......
Riku looked on in shock and bewilderment, and I did the same. The outlet was covered with people, there seemed to be festivities everywhere, and now that I looked at it, it seemed that the whole outlet was a larger and colored-down version of Disney Town in Birth By Sleep. And, instead of a circle, it was a wide line. He groaned.
