From Eternamente -- This is actually a very spontaneous one-shot I wrote today (my birthday, yay). I was looking over some reviews for this story, and saw a review that gave me an idea. So, this is dedicated to the endearing Kane-chan. She mentioned that she'd like something having to do with a secret spot and such... well, this probably isn't exactly what she had in mind, but this still derived from it. What better secret spot than the actual secret spot, eh? So, this is a bit of low-key fluff, but with a happy ending. It's also set within the game world, and I'm glad I finally had the proper inspiration to write an in-character story with them actually in the game's environment. Enjoy!
Disclaimer -- The usual stuff. Property of Disney and Square, et cetera.
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Story Three -- Pinky-Promise
The sheer irony of it was baffling to those who knew the future.
On the one hand we have Riku. Broody and angst-ridden, he chose to while away his hours dangling idly upon the paopu tree out in full view of the sunshine. On the other hand we have Sora. Cheerful and sincere, he chose to while away his hours drawing countless pictures deep within a darkened cave that housed a strange door to the unknown. How ironic that the two preferred to meditate, so to speak, in the opposite environments that their hearts would eventually lead them.
The two were best of friends, though, and they had vowed long ago when they were still young that nothing would ever come between them. Not a hurricane, not being forced to move, not even a dinosaur. Well, they were five-years-old when that promise was made, so of course a dinosaur wasn't a far-fetched idea for the children. In any event, nothing would ever come between them; they pinky-promised on that, and nothing is more sacred than a pinky-promise.
Then Kairi came into the picture.
She was an instant hit for the two boys, and the two suddenly had a friendly rivalry going right from the start. Both boys vied long and hard for more attention from the sweet little girl Riku would invite her to spend time with him on his paopu tree, and Sora would invite her into his cave to doodle upon the walls, but in the end she couldn't help but split her attention across both boys. Her young heart was too pure to choose one over the other, although time would have her teenage heart gravitating a little bit more in favour of the little brunet. Kairi was growing up, and she was falling in love.
How tragic that her love would be unrequited.
Kairi thought that Sora had drawn her on the wall of the cave that one day. She had drawn a pretty good representation of the object of her affection, but Sora's heart was elsewhere. A poorly drawn face stared back across the cave to the Sora-drawing. Kairi wouldn't know until it was too-late that Sora drew someone else they knew and cared for. How naïve she had been all that time.
For you see in all of those years of competing and fighting Riku and Sora felt a different need for attention, not from Kairi, but from each other. Riku would triumph, and Sora would try just as hard to gain his friend's admiration. Sora would be incredible, and Riku could not help but take notice. The two boys were growing up, and they were longing to be with one another. Neither could admit it, though, for fear of rejection or even worse. Once in a while one or the other boy would wake up in a cold sweat, having had a nightmare of the other rejecting them and shunning them for their admission of a taboo love. How ironic that the two didn't have the courage to stand up to doubt, but they had the courage for their endeavors.
The darkness came, and Riku gave in. He allowed it to engulf him, and as much as it pained Sora he just couldn't follow Riku. How he wished he could have, but his heart knew Riku was wrong and that his silver-haired friend would someday regret his choice. For what seemed like an eternity Sora fought through countless worlds in search of Kairi, but more importantly, for his Riku. The worlds thanked Sora, now a hero of light, but all he wanted was to finally have Riku back so he could finally confess his true innermost thoughts.
How heartbreaking it must have been for Sora. He wouldn't get the opportunity for that until about two years after the chaos began. Magic and keyholes, different worlds and incredible adventures. A genie of the lamp, a wilting rose, the sights of London, a magic carpet ride, a gummi ship, a frantic search in a castle etched into the edge of twilight, Heartless, Nobodies, enigmatic organization members bent on exploiting Sora's newfound powers for their own means... all of this and more became a part of the young brunet's everyday life. He found magic in his new friends, a duck named Donald and a dog named Goofy. They weren't replacements for Riku and Kairi -- they could never be -- but they were welcome additions to his heart. He wished every moment of every step of every new journey that Riku was right by his side. And after all of the heartache and after all of the chaos, he finally got his wish.
Finally Sora was reunited with an older Riku in a world that should never have existed. They were both older, both wiser, both more-refined, and definitely both more-attractive, but they both shared a knowing smile that sang to each other. This was the home of the Nobodies, and to finally touch Riku again here was bittersweet. He cried. Sora, the light of the worlds, wept, and Riku could not help but feel remorse for having to hide. But he nor the Keyblade master could not confess, not yet. The war was not over, and the two boys were on the front lines. Once everything was over they could finally be together.
After what seemed like an eon, Xemnas was finally defeated. It wasn't long before the two heroes finally landed in their homeland of Destiny Islands after a two-year absence. It was almost as if they had never left.
Almost.
Riku and Sora now laid curled up in Sora's secret cave, far away from the prying eyes of the other residents. The paopu tree would be left for the pair and Kairi to lounge upon, but for these special moments the privacy of the cave suited them just fine. The world can be a judgmental place, but for now the two could finally be content with just being in each other's arms. No cheesy lines had to be spoken, and no murmurs of sweet nothings had to be whispered. It was as if the confession never needed to be said. After two years of searching for each other, and to finally find each other, and to finally be back to normal (in a sense of the term), the confession they so feared speaking out loud didn't even need to be said. Riku and Sora were together, and they would never let that go. They just knew that they were meant for each other.
"We'll go together."
"Yeah."
"Sora?" Riku finally broke the comfortable silence the two boys shared.
"Yeah, Riku?" The brunet curiously glanced up from the aforementioned boy's lap. The two had been content to just holding each other for several hours, neither one of them wishing to part ways for the day. Perhaps one day the two could be more-public about their affection, but for now this was all they needed.
Riku fussed with his words before breaking down and becoming very uncharacteristic. "Promise we'll always be together? I never want to lose you again."
Sora smiled his trademark smile before stretching his hand over to Riku's own and interlacing their pinkies. "It's a pinky-promise," he softly responded as the elder gripped Sora's pinky with his own. "Not even a dinosaur can break us apart."
Riku chuckled in relief before placing a delicate kiss atop Sora's spiky head. "That's all I needed to hear." And the two laid together just like that for hours into the evening, pinkies intertwined all the while.
As always, reviews are lovely. Thanks much for putting up with my sporadic updates lol. Moving and such very soon, so I'm foregoing updating my major stories as they involve heavy plotwork that I don't have the time to sit down and iron out at this time. So, rather than crank out something worthy of toilet paper, I'm saving my inspiration so it can tumble forth from my new residence. Updates for Angel's Savior and Enigma are planned, and I have a humourous story in-the-works as well. Until Eternity is sadly on a little bit of a hiatus; it's a complex story that I felt dragged out (although necessary to foreshadow and setup) and it will take me quite a bit of time before I can really focus on updating that. Enigma is slated to be about the same size as the first part of Angel's Savior; not very long, but not too-short. Anyway, enough of my rambling. Thanks for checking in! And I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did; it didn't take long to write, and I'm glad I got to write a light yaoi set in the actual video game world ;)
