Title: Summer's End
Rating: K
Characters: Sora, Riku, Kairi (Riku/Sora/Kairi implied)
Game: Kingdom Hearts I
Summary: Summer is almost over, and they plan on leaving soon.
Notes: For the themes 'trio,' 'holiday,' and 'here today, gone tomorrow' at the Key Blade LJ community.
"Summer's almost over, you know." The three of them are sitting in a circle, backs pressed together. Their hands are locked together between them – Sora has his fingers wrapped around both Kairi's hand and Riku's hand, and Riku's got them both, and Kairi doesn't really mind, because she likes being here, between them, like this. The wind is light, and messes their hair a little, but Kairi's the only one who really minds that, and she pushes her hair back with a tiny pout each time the wind picks up a bit and pulls her hair over her face.
Riku tilts his head back, against both of theirs, and looks up, to the star-speckled sky, and watches it for a moment. He's expecting something to happen, being the last weekend of summer and all, just like any child does when there's the looming shadow of school breathing down their necks, and they know that, soon, they won't be able to run free any more. He's expecting them to leave by tomorrow afternoon, because that's the plan, although the raft isn't quite finished yet, not yet. He wants to be gone by tomorrow; it'd be better than going back to school.
"Yeah, but if we leave, that won't matter. We could find somewhere else where it's summer all of the time." Riku says this as he reaches up toward the sky, aimlessly, playing connect-the-dots with the tip of his finger, making patterns only he can see out of the stars. He thinks he'd like to leave now, but he knows they can't – they have yet to finish the raft, or to write the notes to their parents they all promised to leave. He said notes were easier than actually saying goodbye, because goodbyes are hard and frustrating and will only make them homesick, in the end, and Sora and Kairi agreed, and so they planned to write letters. It's easier that way.
"Yeah, we could, couldn't we?" Sora confirms what he says, like he always does, and Kairi just smiles, innocent and sweet and a little apprehensive, like everything Riku says puts her on edge, like she doesn't quite trust this idea of leaving the island. Or something like that. Riku's never cared to find out exactly what it is that bothers her, and doesn't really care to now, because that's just how Kairi is, and he doesn't have the heart to question her.
"Think we can finish the raft before summer is over?" Kairi, always the one to think they can't do it. Riku wishes, sometimes, she'd just go along with what he says, like Sora does, but, instead, she always, always questions, always wonders, and that makes Sora wonder, too, and that makes getting things done just a little bit more complicated, because both of them doubt it, and don't really try as hard because of it.
"Of course we can. You two just need to stop lying around and help out for once." He teases them like always, and Sora pouts, and punches his arm, like always, and Kairi just giggles under her hand when Riku grabs Sora around the neck, arm holding him tight, and he smirks, and ruffles his hair.
"Alright, tomorrow we'll all work on it. The three of us." Sora grins and nods in approval, and Kairi beams, finally getting the idea, and Riku smiles, too, and lets Sora go so he can lean against them both again, like they should.
Holding hands, Riku feels like they really can do it, make their raft before summer is over and escape before school begins, because the three of them are working on it now, and he knows that, when they work together, they can get anywhere.
