Tree

Kingdom Hearts

Pairings: KairixSora CloudxAerith Rikux?

Prompt by: Alex

A cold wind caused Riku to shiver as he pulled his coat tighter and walked slowly through the snow. Two playful figures ran ahead of him and were throwing snowballs at each other with crazed hyper-ness, there was no other word for it. The silver haired teen shook his head. His two best friends where so overactive it seemed they were made for each other.

"SORA!" the read haired girl screeched as a snowball hit her on the side of her face.

The named brunette let out a screech of his own as he realized he had hurt the girl.

"I'm so sorry Kairi, I didn't mean too, sometimes I just forget to be careful and I really didn't want to hurt you, and…I mean… I'M SORRY!" He babbled out.

Riku chuckled at the scene before him as Kairi silenced the hyperactive boy with a kiss. His mind drifted to a time long ago, before they had ever known about heartless or keyblades, when he wished he could be the one Kairi kissed. That was a long time ago; Riku had now moved on and saw that the two belonged together. A pang of guilt entered his heart at the thought of what he personally had put his two friends through. He wiped it away quicly, this was supposed to be a time of forgiveness, no heartless, no nobodies, just friends. The only jealousy he felt towards the two was the fact that he thought he would never find that kind of love.

Riku was snapped from his thoughts as he heard a chuckle beside.

"How much sugar have you been giving them?" He turned to see a blonde man with his arm draped around the shoulders of a pink-clad young woman walking right behind him.

"These two don't need sugar; you should know that by now, Cloud."

They were interrupted by a shriek from Kairi.

"There they are! Oh I want that one, and this one!" Riku looked up to see the frantic girl no doubt having reached their destination, the Christmas Tree Forest. They hade been invited by their friends from Radiant Garden to celebrate Christmas, but as a special treat Cloud, Aerith, and Leon had decided to take them to Christmas Town to pick out a tree. The three keyblade wielders had never done this before as they were from the islands and rarely even had snow. Leon walked next to Riku

"She's gonna want the whole forest isn't she?"



Riku chuckled, "no just half, and Sora will want the other half."

A half hour later the two hyper teens had settled on one trees to take home, a tall pine.

"Wait, how are we gonna get it down?" Sora asked confused, trying to find something to cut it down with.

"Aha! He cried as he found an old rusty saw laying on the ground and began to try to cut down the tree.

Riku just stared wide eyed at his oblivious friend as he had little success. Cloud, Aerith and Leon just tried to hold back their own laughter and Kairi was smacking her head with her hand.

Frustrated with his work Sora let out a groan and looked around. "What?" he said indignantly.

"Sora," Riku said through stifled laughter, "just… just stand back." With that the silvered teen summed Way to Dawn and lunged forward bringing the tree down with one swing.

Sora crossed his arms and pouted, "Yeah well, I could have done that." Everyone in the group just looked at each other and burst out laughing. Sora would never change, no matter how many worlds he'd been to, no matter how many powerful heartless he had taken down, he would still be that goofy kid from Destiny Islands.

Riku looked at his friend and turned to look at their group. With a smile Riku realized that his heart was filled with two things he didn't think possible, Joy, and love. The friendships he had made would always be with him. Their love was so important to him, it was worth the trials he had been through. Deep down he knew that even if he didn't find that special someone, somehow he would always be content.

Just then he felt something run into him and found himself sprawled on the ground.

"I'm sorry, I didn't…" a sweet melodic voice said but was cut off as Riku's aquamarine eyes met a pair of sky blue ones. The girl stood up and Riku could feel his face heating up.

"It's okay, I'm Riku."

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Just so no one get's confused I didn't really have anyone in mind for the girl at the end, I just wanted to show there was still hope for Riku! Please R&R!

I do not own Kingdom Hearts or any of the characters