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]

7. Butterflies

Chapter 7: Butterflies

The boys were taken aback when Naminé approached them with a request: "Can I pick the game today?" Usually, she went along with whatever they were pretending to be and embellished the story with some of her own ideas.

After a split second of hesitation, Sora replied, "Okay! What do you want to play?"

Naminé clapped her hands together in delight. "Butterflies!"

Sora and Riku gaped at her. "What."

"My mommy read me a story last night about a kingdom of butterflies! So we're each gonna pretend to be butterflies and we fly around like this…" She spread out her arms, like wings, and started running around in circles. "And we have to protect our kingdom from the evil bees!"

"Who gets to be the bee?" asked Sora quickly.

"Um…I guess one of you could be the bees instead of a butterfly…"

The sword fight that ensued was the fiercest that Sora and Riku had ever fought.