Pairings: Sora/Kairi Sora/Riku
-Chapter 03-
As he cast off his clothing near the shore of the island where he had
spent so many warm summer days with Sora and Kairi, Riku's heart was
filled with the pain of losing the love he had yearned for so long.
Sora had been the reason he had left home. The reason he had come to
stay with these people, leaving behind the family he had been born
into. It hurt him to think that the handsome young man would never be
his. That after all his waiting and hoping, his dreams of a life with
Sora, as Sora's mate, would never be recognized.
He turned back from the water, to say one last goodbye to the city
that had been his home for a few short years.
Then he walked deeper and deeper until the ocean swallowed him up.
Sora and Kairi arrived on the beach a few minutes later, just in time
to see Riku's hair vanish under the water.
"No!" Sora cried out, as he ran into the water. He made a valiant
effort to find Riku, but it was too dark, and in the end he was forced
to admit defeat.
"Riku," he said, sadly. "If only I'd been strong enough to say how I
really felt"
"But you were strong enough, remember?" Kairi asked. "You proposed to
me"
"Actually," Sora admitted, too heartsick to care if Kairi hated him,
"you just assumed I was going to propose to you. You weren't the only
person in that photo besides me"
"Oh, Sora," Kairi's eyes dampened with tears. "I'm so sorry"
"Kairi," Sora told her, darkly, as he stood up, "don't speak to me
right now. And don't follow me home. It's not you, I just need to be
alone"
They turned from the beach and went there own separate ways. Had they
turned back to the water, they would have seen an elegant and somewhat
large silver-white fishtail vanish back beneath the waves.
Sora's mother was putting the glasses on the table, when Sora walked
in with Riku's discarded clothing.
"Mom," he sad, sadly, as he showed the clothing to his mother.
She let out a little cry of shock and dismay. Then, they hugged each
other, tears falling from their eyes, while Sora's father folded the
clothes as if nothing was amiss and put them neatly on the arm of the
sofa.