Just the Four of Us

by PoH07

"Besides Kairi and Riku, there was one other girl I was friends with. The four of us played together all the time!" A mixture of drabbles and short stories set in a canon divergent AU, about the misadventures of Sora, Riku, Kairi, and Naminé while growing up together on Destiny Islands. [Cross posted to Archive of Our Own]

1. The First Battle

Chapter 1: The First Battle

The day that Riku met Sora began in tragedy.

That was how Riku viewed things when he realized that he misplaced his favorite toy sword. He'd gone to the playground with his mother and kept it by his side all morning. Then she called him over to the picnic tables for lunch, and when he returned to the sandbox, it was gone. At least, Riku thought he'd left it at the sandbox. It wasn't anywhere among the plastic buckets and shovels, nor in the grass nearby.

Then he thought he saw it…in the hands of another boy. His face flushed. How dare that kid steal his sword? Didn't he know that only the bravest of warriors could wield such a powerful weapon?

So, naturally, he decided to run across the playground and clobber the spiky-haired thief. Only, things didn't go according to plan. After Riku left the boy crying on the ground, he noticed the name carved into the wooden blade: "Sora."

"Oops."

To his surprise, Sora cheered up right away and offered to help him find his missing sword, "and then we can have a rematch!" And even though they had just met, Riku could tell that they were going to be best friends.

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A/N: Hi, everyone! I'm sorry that this first chapter is so short. They're going to vary in length. Some will be long, some will be short little drabbles, some will be in between, etc. I've been posting this story for years on Archive of Our Own, but since I've gotten a new account, I decided to start posting it here too. So, in order to play catch-up, I'm going to post a new chapter each weekday, Mon-Fri, until I reach the end. (It's not finished yet, but by the time I finish uploading the final chapters on Ao3, they should be ready to go up here too.)

Also, I want to give credit where credit is due. Some of the prompts for these chapters came from a writing challenge that I found here years ago by Wishing-Fire: s/6870999/1/50-theme-challenge. I meant to give it a try, but the story quickly veered off track even before I posted anything, so I decided to forgo that part and just write my own thing. Hence why some of the chapters are so short, they were originally meant to be drabbles only.

Anyways, enough of this note which is probably longer than the actual chapter. I hope you enjoy this fic, and if you do, please let me know!