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]

6. Jealousy

Chapter 6: Jealousy

Whack! Whack! Whack!

Naminé watched her friends fighting with their toy swords, this time over whose picture she would draw next. As always, Riku was clearly winning, but Sora wasn't going down without a fierce struggle. She wondered where he found the courage to do that, even when he knew that the odds of winning were not very likely. I'm not like that, she realized, I wish I could be brave like Sora.

Sora fell to his knees, panting, as Riku stood triumphantly over him. He could barely look his friend in the eye as he mumbled, "You win again." And he wished with all of his heart that he could be a champion like Riku.

Riku grinned and sat next to Naminé, watching as she started her drawing of him. He could beat his friends at any competitive game, but he lacked her skill with crayons. Sometimes he wished he didn't.