Sora Riku kairiI'm sorry I know you've onlyBeen home a short while butI need to speak with the three of you aboutThe future of the worldsA gummi ship will pick you threeUp in a fortnight and you shallBe taken to Disney castle,We should arrive at about the same timeAgain I am sorryKing Mickey
The three teenagers looked at each other "I wonder what its all about" Riku queried "I hope everything is okay" Kairi said "We get to see Donald and Goofy again" Sora said with a smile wider then the island on his face the other two looked at him kairi now smiling one hand beside her the other wrapped round her back holding on to her elbow and Riku one hand over his face shaking his head and saying "you'll never change will you" a slight laugh in his voice. Sora still smiling put hands behind his head in his signature pose "nope". Kairi smiling at the pair of them "neither will you" and she thought to herself (but I must it's the only way they wont leave me behind this time I don't want to just sit and wait for them to come back or hear that they wont) Sora turned to Riku and Said "how about some practice" both Riku and Kairi looked at him stunned, his smile dropped "What is there something behind me" he said spinning round to have a look, riku took a step away from the other two and remarked " I guess you have changed after all" Kairi giggled, they both turned to her and said "what" at the same time causing her to laugh more, she wiped a single tear from her cheek "nothing" she said "come on Kairi" Sora moaned "tell us" Riku said, "Neither of you realise just how much you have both been changed by what you've already done" they two young men looked at each other wonderingly, she continued "I mean when we found Riku he looked a lot different but he returned to normal, and you Sora were turned into a heartless, Which by the way was mental seeing as you did it to yourself, but that's not what I meant when I said you'd changed" the two boys were really confused now "what I'm saying is Sora has grown up he's matured he has realised he has responsibilities now he has the keyblade, can you imagine Sora wanting to train before all this heartless stuff happened" the two teenagers turned to each other and said in unison "No" all three of them laughed after a minute kairi continued " And you riku your not so serious anymore" Sora and Kairi were looking at Riku, Kairi went to say something but Riku interrupted "I have you and Sora to thank for that when I wanted to leave this world and go to new worlds and find new and exciting things you two were willing to come with me with me but I just ended up lost out there and doing things I regret to the people I care immensely about, but you two never gave up on me neither of you and over the past year I realised that this place and spending time with those I hold in my heart are really all I need you two made me realise that and that helped me back from the darkness" Sora and Kairi stood dumb founded "and that's when it came to me that I should enjoy every moment of every day, to spend them with the ones you love for they make you who you are and just hope that when the time comes for us to go our own ways and leave each other, to remember that we will never be apart because we are always connected within our hearts and our memories" Riku realised he had closed his eyes, he slowly opened them. Kairi was beaming and Sora had a huge grin on his face, that's when it hit him, they already new this to. "Why don't you guys leave the training tonight we'll just chill out and relax and enjoy the evening and start training tomorrow " Kairi stated the two boys sighed they both wanted to get back into there sparring to see how the other had improved and to see if they could beat the other. But both Sora and Riku new that Sora would go along with what Kairi suggested so they shrugged and decided to go to the dock. Kairi said they should make it a race they all stood ready at the bottom of the ramp of the bridge they all counted 3(Sora looked at Riku 2 (Riku nodded back) 1(They always did it every race ever, they gave Kairi a head start but one of them always managed to beat her) GO! Kairi shot of from the start putting all her strength into her legs willing her self to go faster determined to win this time. As she got to the other side of the bridge that's when sora and riku usually started and riku did he shot of in three steps he was half way across the bridge, Kairi was at the bottom of the stairs, Sora walked to the middle of the bridge thinking to himself that Kairi had gotten faster and Riku even faster then he already had been, Kairi burst through the door of the shack sora watching her with a smile on his face half a second later riku burst through the door right behind her both were wondering where sora was. On the bridge sora bent his knees slightly and without much effort launched himself into the air as he reached the peak of his jump he jumped again putting him level with riku. Riku noticed a shadow flash by him on the floor it was too quick for kairi to notice it.
Sora spread his arms and legs and caught himself in the wind above the racing pair, kairi saw a shadow on the ground a few feet in front of her she looked up to see sora gliding towards the dock, shocked she stopped suddenly, Riku almost ran into her at the last second he dodged to the side missing her by millimetres unfortunately he stepped on to a loose stone on the beach his foot twisted on the stone and he ended up face first in the sand.
Sora landed on the jetty and looked back towards his two best friends he first noticed Riku his backside in the air pulling his head from the sand and shaking it, then he saw kairi and his smile dropped, she was stood still like a statue completely frozen in place he ran towards her shouting her name "Kairi, Kairi", when he was close enough to her placed his hands carefully on her shoulders and whispered to her "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you" nothing she just stood still not moving an inch. After several minutes (which seemed like hours to sora) she slowly started blinking and whispered back to him "what … how-how did you? What was that! Were you flying" she closed her eyes as sora pulled her closer she couldn't remember them ever being this close before and she relaxed further into his arms "showing of that's what that was!" she quickly turned her head and saw riku brushing sand of off himself his back towards them "oh riku" she said "I'm so sorry I shouldn't have stopped so suddenly" he turned towards the pair noticing how close they were "don't worry about it" he said as he started to walk towards the dock "sorry guys I'm gonna, I've got sand in places were it really should not be!" he hadn't he was just giving them time alone. They both stifled a laugh and said together "okay see ya tomorrow, Riku" they laughed at each other, Riku continued walking towards his boat shaking his head he got in and started rowing saying to himself "finally it's about time those two got together" he got about halfway between the islands and pulled his oars back in leaned back into his boat and relaxed just letting the waves gently rock the boat.