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Title: Three Remain
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts II
Characters: Riku, Sora
Rating: G
Warning: Spoilers for all of KHII
Notes: There's not much I can say without being spoilerific... but basically, [livejournal.com profile] ladylore made an icon for me and asked for cute fluffy Riku & Sora friendship fic in exchange. So... yes. Cute, fluffy Riku & Sora fic behind the cut. Yeah. ^.^;;;; Also the icon, because it is LOVE in a spoiler-filled way. Yeah. ^.^;;;



Three Remain


“What is it with us always winding up on islands in the middle of nowhere?” Riku asked as he looked around slowly and shook his head. When Sora chuckled beside him, Riku continued, “This one doesn’t even have enough wood to make a raft!”

“Don’t worry.” Sora replied, turning and smiling at him. “We’ll get home somehow.”

The wind blew in from the water onto the darkened beach, whistling around them. It had been… some time… since they’d found themselves here, alone on an endless shore. Long enough that even their rudimentary first aid and application of cure spells had long since healed all of the physical wounds Xemnas had caused them, which to Riku’s mind suggested that they had been there quite some time.

“How can you do that?” He asked, staring off into the distance.

“Do what?” Sora said, and Riku could feel the brown-haired boy’s eyes upon him, could hear the genuine confusion in his voice.

“Believe.” Riku replied.

Sora reached out then, and grabbed him by the shoulders, turning him so that he couldn’t avoid those intense blue eyes. Warmth… sincerity… all the things he had missed about his best friend, restored to him at last.

“Kairi’s all right. The worlds are safe. You’re all right, too.” Sora answered, staring at him. Riku’s shoulders were released, and Sora faced into the distance as he continued, “With everything that’s happened, how could I not?”

Riku thought about it for a moment, and nodded.

“I guess you’re right.” He said softly, and a grin surfaced on his face. “But only this once. Don’t let it go to your head or anything.”

“Riku!” Sora protested, shoving him. The silver-haired boy fell sideways, laughing, and used the force to roll a little bit away. He jumped to his feet, and stretched a hand down to his friend, who quickly grabbed it and stood up as well.

“Race you?” Riku offered, smiling down at his younger counterpart.

“Where to?” Sora replied, glancing at the undeniably vacant land around them.

“Wherever!” Riku answered, and took off running down the beach without another word.

“Riku? Riku!” Sora shouted, but the older boy could hear the tell-tale sign of feet pounding down the beach behind him, and the race was on. The sky and scenery would not change no matter how far they went, but Riku found that if he closed his eyes, the world around him was replaced by another beach, another sky. The wind seemed warmer then, and he could almost feel the sunshine spread across his face.

“I’ll get you!” A voice behind him shouted, its closeness giving Riku only a moment’s notice before a flying tackle knocked him back onto the sand, burying his face in it.

“Geez, Sora.” Riku said, shaking the sand off his face. “Get off me. You sure got heavy since the last time we raced.”

“Hey! What do you mean?” The younger boy asked, shifting his weight off his friend and onto the sand, clambering noisily to his feet. He looked more than a little indignant, brow furrowed and fists clenched. Riku sat up and dusted himself off before shrugging and crossing his hands over his chest.

“Nothing.” He replied, surveying the horizon and steadfastly refusing to look at Sora. “You just… grew up, you know?”

“Well yeah.” Sora said, features relaxing. He flopped lazily back onto the sand and returned to their favourite pastime here in the void – gazing at the sea. “I didn’t really have a choice. Neither of us did.”

“No.” Riku answered quietly. “We didn’t.”

The waves crashed upon the shore as time continued to slip ceaselessly away. Together, they sat under the darkened sky, a comfortable silence settling easily between them as the gentle breeze blew past them.

“Hey, Riku?” Sora eventually said.

“Yeah?” The taller boy replied as he leaned back and stretched out upon the sand.

“We are going to get back eventually, right?” The question was there, but Riku could tell that it was more for his own benefit than for his friend.

“Yes, Sora. Someday.”

“All right then.” Sora nodded to himself and lay back, staring up at the cloudless sky. “Someday.”

~ Fin ~

As an idle aside, the title comes from the expression: “Faith, hope, and love – these three remain.”

Here's what I got in return for this fic:

Axel = LOVE!!! ^______^ The text is all [livejournal.com profile] lithele's fault, too. ^_^ I ♥ it like woah. ^_^
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