Plant Flowers In Your Heart
Chapter 3
Down the street from Kairi's house stood a small ice cream shack by the name of Blue Dream Creamery. Locals and tourists alike gathered to the tiny wood and brick building to purchase the best ice cream on the map; sea salt ice cream. Back at the mayor's less-than- humble abode, Sora and Kairi listened to the Rules of Riku's competition. "Okay, here's the rules, first one to Blue Dream is the winner. No Magic. No potions. Winner has to buy Kairi ice cream."
"Nice!" The redhead exclaimed, " Wait a second, I thought I was playing too.
" Sora replies to Kairi, "You are but..."
"You don't stand a CHANCE." Riku finished Sora's thought. Kairi made a face and Sora gave the Silver haired boy a death glare before returning back to Kairi. "Sorry Kairi."
Riku patted Kairi on the shoulder and said, " Hey I'm just playing around. Besides, you get free ice cream out of this. Seems like a pretty sweet deal to me."
"Literally sweet!" Sora cut in with a corny joke and laughed while his two friends cracked a smile. Moments later the friends left kairi's room and walked out the door to meet outside the mansion. Before exiting the house, Kairi called out to her father, "Dad! We're going out!"
"Okay!" He shouted from the other room, " just be back before the u-haul gets here sweetie!"
"We will!"
Once outside the three lined up side by side in the street. Cars were scarce on the island and many locals would walk and ride bikes on the road. Sora, Riku, and Kairi were in a running stance. Riku began the countdown.
"3,2,1..go!"
The trio took off with lightning speed towards the ice cream shop with Riku in the lead, Sora a close second, and Kairi dragging behind. Kairi didn't mind being in the back. She was just having fun. She thought about all of the times they raced together when they were younger, and how she'd always lose then too. She didn't need the boys to go easier on her and they didn't. She let out a small chuckle and picked up the pace a little more. Sora began to notice Kairi hot on his trail and looked back at her grinning.
"You're getting pretty good at this Kai-"
BAM!
The spiky haired boy was interrupted by a palm tree. He smacked into it with enough force to knock him off his feet. Kairi gasped, "Sora are you okay?!" He did not respond, due to the fact he had become unconscious. "Riku! Soras hurt! Come back!" Unfortunately, Riku did not hear the red head's call. Kairi approached Sora and bent down on her knees to put his head in her lap. She examined him closely. Kairi put a hand on the brunettes face and gently felt the place of impact. Sora's forehead and half of his face was bright red. Kairi winced and thought, what should I do? She looked around for Riku but he was nowhere in sight so she focused her eyes on Sora once again. Kairi took a moment to really look at the young man, and not just his injuries.
She took note of how his chocolate hair shone in the sunshine and how smooth his skin was, for someone who was always subjected to drastic weather changes from other worlds, transformation magic, and various attacks from powerful foes. Suddenly the redhead had a strange urge run though her. She hovered a hand over Soras hair for a moment but decided not to run her fingers through it. Instead she raised her arm slightly, closed her eyes and summoned her keyblade.
Destiny's Embrace, was Kairi's trusty Keyblade, and what she had used to learn how to fight. She never really became a master or anything, but she did her best to help her friend's. She decided to use her keyblade for what she was acceptable at. Magic.
During her and Axel's training at Merlin's hideout, the two tried their best not to be slackers, but some days just called for ice cream breaks. When the pair weren't eating ice cream and watching the sunset, they were actually sparring. Axel focused on melee attacks and Kairi focused on magic. They complimented each other well; Unfortunately for Kairi, she was out of practice. It had been 2 years since the events that took place at the key blade graveyard. 2 years since their battle with Xehanort where Kairi had been struck down by his hand and Sora risked his own life to pull her from death. She wanted to keep him safe then, but she could only do so much.
Kairi shook the thought of failure from her mind and gripped Destiny's Embrace with both hands. This time I WILL keep you safe!
"Cure!" Kairi Shouted.
A glowing yellow and green light surrounded Sora as beautiful flowers and other plants appeared above his head. When the lights and plants faded away, Kairi checked Sora's face for red marks. Only a subtle mark from the palm tree remained. His eyes were still closed which caused Kairi to worry slightly. She leaned in closer and spoke softly, "...Sora, are you okay?" Kairi continued to gaze at him and put a hand on his cheek.
"Ungh..ouch.." Sora mumbled as he opened his eyes.
The redhead tried to move her hand away but the spiky haired boy put his hand over hers and squeezed it gently. He looked into her eyes and smiled."Haha, guess I should be more careful..." kairi breathed out a sigh of relief. She then placed her other hand on his head and slid her fingers through his soft hair. "I was afraid my healing magic wasn't going to work. I'm SO out of practice."
"You did great!" the brunette encouraged.
Sora could feel his face get warm from her caresses and wondered if she noticed. He looked away and focused in on a tree behind her. If he stared at her any longer he'd look like a tomato.
After some time passed Sora asked, "where's Riku?"
Kairi continued to pet Sora as she responeded, "He's still running the race. I tried calling his name when you got knocked out but he didn't hear me."
"...should we call him?"
"I left my Gummy Phone at the house..Did you bring you bring yours?"
"hmm, let me check," Sora slowly lifted his head from kairi's lap and sat up, patted his pockets, and felt the device. "Found it!"
The brunette unlocked his phone and searched for Rikus number. Just as he began to search the two friends heard familiar footsteps rushing towards them. Riku stopped in front of his friends with three Sea-salt ice cream bars. "It looks like I win. you could've maybe stood a chance if you weren't playing on your phones." The silver haired boy smirked, shook his head in a joking manner, and continued. "What happened Sora? I thought you were serious about our competitions. " Kairi and Sora both stood up.
"Hey man, I AM. I just plowed my freakin' face into a palm tree! If it weren't for Kairi, I'd still be on the ground right now!"
"Okay, okay. Calm down and eat your ice cream. I was only joking." He handed the two their own delicious frozen treat. "let's head back before the moving truck gets there."