I sobbed while writing this... I blame it on hormones.

Disclaimer: I only own the (once again) nameless OC and the plot.

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It was always the little things he would do, unbeknownst to even himself that would always pull me back in towards him.

The way he would slightly sneer when he was about to fight (it's a lot cuter than it sounds), the way his nose would scrunch us when he gave me that overly cheesy grin of his, they way he was always so easily amused, the teasing look that lingered in his eye when he would lean back with his hands behind his head, the way his thumb would slightly graze my hand when we would do our limit break, and the funny way I would occasionally catch him looking at me accidentally.

I knew it would never go past any of that though, he had Kairi and I was okay with that. I had come to terms with that long ago when we started our second journey with Goofy and Donald, so I just sat here on the old paopu fruit tree with my thumbs running over his necklace. He had put it in my care when he and Kai decided to go swimming together awhile ago.

There were soft footsteps that came up behind me and soon I found Riku sitting next to me watching the sunset. "You care about him a lot."

It was a simple statement, almost a rhetorical question, but I still answered it, "Yeah, I do."

There was a comfortable silence that settled between the two of us for some time. By the time he spoke up again the sun was just about to dip beyond the horizon. "Will you ever tell him?"

"No," I answered right off the bat, "He… Well he loves her."

That made me smile and laugh, but it was completely sincere and out of happiness. Out of the corner of my eye I saw the silver headed male nod in agreement.

"Does it hurt?"

I shrugged, "Not really. In the beginning I tried to fight it, but as I grew up, as I went through everything I realized that I cared about him so much just the fact that he was happy was good enough for me. She cares for him just as much which makes it all the better. I just want everyone to be at peace again. That's why I agreed to go on this journey in the first place."

Once again he simply nodded, he was always the quieter one of the two of us, and it was interesting going though Castle Oblivion with him that one time that seemed like it was ages ago.

"What about you?" I asked. I knew that he cared for Kairi like I did for Sora, but he cared for Sora as well. I had never really connected with the red head, but that was fine.

I got a shrug and that made me smile fondly back out at the sun. It had finally disappeared and the younger duo below Riku and me were starting to get dried off. I hopped off of the tree and put Sora's necklace in my pocket. Glancing back I watched Riku slide off of the tree also and the star charm Kairi had went into a pocket. Looks like I wasn't alone in reminiscing. I walked up to him and held out my elbow to him with a smile.

"Will you be escorting me back to your boat because I had a feeling Kairi is leaving with Sora so I'm stuck with you and this has now become a run on sentence?" I said it all in one breath with a British accent.

Riku shook his head with a smirk on his face in disbelief at my antics, but took my arm none the less and we started walking back to his boat together.

"Hey, I said I had gotten mature, not that I had grown up." I nudged him slightly and that earned me a rare chuckle. I liked that. Sadly though, neither of us was ready to let go of the ones we cared for enough to realize that the two of us could actually have something between us. But that was alright, because with time the heart grows fonder.